Service Thinking > Guidance > Continuous Improvement
Guidance Notes
Teams and Organisations should measure their performance and continually invest in maintaining and improving it.
This should include:
- Measurement of both efficiency and effectiveness for the Team or Organisation and everything it does.
- Identification of and removal of impediments and identification and implementation of improvements as a standard part of day-to-day operations.
- A focus on fixing the root causes of inefficiencies and issues rather than the surface issues.
- Escalation of impediments and improvements to any parent organisation or wider context when required.
- Maturity assessments only where and when they’re useful for Teams and Organisations to identify potential areas for their own improvement.
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Further Reading
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