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# Blog - Operational Problem Solving

## [Business Imperative to Accelerate Operational Improvement Initiatives](https://www.thinkingdimensions.com/blog/industrial-problem-solving/business-imperative-to-accelerate-operational-improvement-initiatives)

 By [Keith Pelkey](https://www.thinkingdimensions.com/blog/industrial-problem-solving/author/keith-pelkey) on Mar 3, 2015 11:55:00 PM

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Companies need and demand fast results to be competitive!  Since the late 1980s, top performing businesses have ventured into various [operational improvement methodologies](https://www.thinkingdimensions.com/resources/blog/industrial-problem-solving/why-do-some-improvement-projects-fail) with mixed results.  The marketing of methodologies promotes that “the new” approach is better, easier, or more sustaining – hence TQM, Six Sigma, Malcolm Baldrige, Lean Mfg, ISO 9000.

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## [Why Do Some Improvement Projects Fail?](https://www.thinkingdimensions.com/blog/industrial-problem-solving/why-do-some-improvement-projects-fail)

 By [Nick Bickell](https://www.thinkingdimensions.com/blog/industrial-problem-solving/author/nick-bickell) on Dec 2, 2014 5:54:49 PM

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In all organisations at any point in time, there are a number of initiatives under way to improve performance.  These may be formal or informal, generated in meetings or in the tea room, part of a company wide Continuous Improvement Drive, products of a suggestion scheme or quality circle, knee-jerk reactions to recent incidents etc.

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