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As a continuous increasing process of the company level innovation ability, continuous improvement is an important strategy for the company to keep competitive. This paper mainly studies the present situation and implementation methods of continuous improvement. The motivation of continuous improvement about Chinese enterprises is firstly analyzed with the help of Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) Program. The study shows that the most important motivation of Chinese enterprises conducting continuous improvement is to gain higher customer satisfaction. Secondly, the performance of continuous improvement about Chinese enterprises is studied. The research shows that production volume, safety and working conditions are the emphasis that Chinese enterprises need to focus on in the next stage. Thirdly, the methods of continuous improvement that Chinese enterprises can learn are studied by using benchmarking. At last, the specific advices for every method are put forward. The study of this paper is to provide reference for the conduction of continuous improvement about Chinese enterprises.
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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (70872026, 70972096, 71002060), Postdoctor Science Foundation of China (20090450968), The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HIT.HSS.201114) and Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20102302110058)
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Yang, Y., Shi, C., Li, J. (2013). Continuous Improvement Method of Chinese Enterprises Based on Study of Benchmarking . In: Zhong, Z. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 217. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4850-0_11
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