Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the conditions under which continuous improvement practices are developed and to determine what success factors and barriers affect the sustainability of these practices in order to establish strategies that reduce the risk of failure of...

One of the most frequently implemented tools in Polish enterprises, which arises from the Lean Management concept, here understood in its broader sense, are so called schemes of employee suggestion. Their primary objective is to activate (motivate) employees of a specific enterprise to share...

Purpose: Continuous improvement is a means of promoting and working through business excellence. However, due to the complexity of the implementation process, many companies fail. Some authors consider that this partly due to the lack of studies which develop and validate theoretical constructs...

The intensity of global competition and the dynamics of the demand markets force companies to continuously improve their value adding processes at high pace. The present study supports companies in managing this task, offering a process model based on lean management that empowers employees in...

Organizations constantly strive to unleash their entrepreneurial potential to keep up with market and technology changes. To this end, they engage employees in practices like corporate crowdsourcing, incubators, accelerators or hackathons. These organizational practices emulate independent...

"Opportunity Identification is a crucial entrepreneurial skill but students often struggle to come up with venture ideas that solve real problems and create substantial value. Ideate is a proven method that helps students generate, evaluate, and select the most innovative ideas. Authors Daniel...

Purpose: To identify the main drivers that facilitate the successful deployment of a participation program aimed at improving competitiveness, as a prior step to analyze and discuss the implementation of these drivers in three services companies. Design/methodology/approach: The selection of the...

"In today's knowledge-, wisdom-, and information-based world, the challenge facing leaders and organizations is to be able to obtain employee commitment and to apply that dedication to constant improvement and change. In a world where technology is rapidly improving and knowledge is increasing...

"This book is a reference for continuous improvement project (CIP) leaders/facilitators in manufacturing and service organizations, students (undergraduate and graduate), academics responsible to manage senior projects (Capstone Projects) and teaching quality courses, and researchers interested...

One of the most frequently implemented tools in Polish enterprises, which arises from the Lean Management concept, here understood in its broader sense, are so called schemes of employee suggestion. Their primary objective is to activate (motivate) employees of a specific enterprise to share...

Collecting ideas through crowdsourcing has become a common practice for companies to benefit from external ideas and innovate. It is desirable that crowd members build on each other's ideas to achieve synergy. This study proposes and verifies a new method for idea combination which can result in...

Tech-Giganten wie Facebook, Google und Co. haben es vorgemacht: Sie haben sich von Start-ups zu Global Playern entwickelt, die der Branche ihre Spielregeln aufdiktieren, und die traditionellen Unternehmen zwingen, sich den veränderten Marktbedingungen anzupassen. Und sie haben hierfür ganz...