{"id":395,"date":"2010-09-10T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T17:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2012-01-15T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T16:05:02","slug":"continuous-process-improvement-business-process-orientation-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Process Improvement, Business Process Orientation and Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a brief summary of the paper \u201cDynamic Capabilities through Continuous Improvement, Organizational Process Alignment and Innovation\u201d by M. Kohlbacher and M.\u00a0Ringhofer, which will be presented next week at the 30th Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society in Rome (<a href=\"http:\/\/rom.strategicmanagement.net\">http:\/\/rome.strategicmanagement.net<\/a>). The paper examines the interaction effect of continuous improvement initiatives (e.g. Six Sigma or KAIZEN) and business process orientation on innovation.\u00a0The empirical study uses a sample of 67 Austrian manufacturing companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The empirical evidence shows that firms which apply continuous improvement methods and at the same time<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have a culture in line with the process approach (i.e. a culture\u00a0based on\u00a0teamwork and\u00a0customer orientation; and\u00a0where\u00a0 process workers have detailed knowledge of how their process is executed, etc.)\u00a0or<\/li>\n<li>a strong top management commitment towards the process approach (i.e. where management does not perceive the process program as a single project, but as a way of managing the business; and where management is actively engaged in the process program)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>can develop their products to the market more quickly. The paper will be presented in Track I, Session 203.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a brief summary of the paper \u201cDynamic Capabilities through Continuous Improvement, Organizational Process Alignment and Innovation\u201d by M. Kohlbacher and M.\u00a0Ringhofer, which will be presented next week at the 30th Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society in Rome (http:\/\/rome.strategicmanagement.net). The paper examines the interaction effect of continuous improvement initiatives (e.g. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/?p=395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Continuous Process Improvement, Business Process Orientation and Innovation&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,27,50,49,43,26,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.processorientation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}