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Our Continuous Improvement Development System is a roadmap for creating a CI culture and the supporting business management system.

About the CI Development Guide

How CIDS is Structured

Getting Started with the Continuous Improvement Development System

Getting Started with CIDS for Individual Learners

About the Continuous Improvement Development System

Our CIDS system is documented in our Continuous Improvement Development Guide. We have migrated this online so we can update it with new and improved content as our system evolves.

Chapter Overview

The Purpose and Vision of the CI Development Guide

Building a Business System

Continuous Improvement Philosophies

What to Call Your Effort

The Continuous Improvement Development Guide

Building a CI-Focused Business Management System is a major undertaking. It is best to break this big project up into many small phases.

The Continuous Improvement Transformation Model

The CIDS Transformation Model Table

CI Development System Phase Overview

Phase 1: Introduction & Exploration Overview

Phase 2: Committing Overview

Phase 3: Starting the Journey Overview

Phase 4: Building the Foundation Overview

Phase 5: Ramping Up Overview

Phase 6: Keeping Momentum Overview

Phase 7: World-Class Performance Overview

The Phases of the CI Development System

Our CI Development System is guided by principles. In the absence of specific instructions, it is always good to have a set of rules to fall back on to guide your behavior. We add new principles in each phase as the old principles become ingrained.

Transformation Principles

Phase 1 Principles: Introduction & Exploration

Phase 2 Principles: Committing

Phase 3 Principles: Getting Started

Phase 4 Principles: Building the Foundation

Phase 5 Principles: Ramping Up

Phase 7 Principles: World-Class Performance

The Transformation Principles

You can define your own progress through the phases-it is just a guide after all. But if you want more specific instructions, we have created checklists for you. Tasks are just things that you should do, or get started on. Gates require specific accomplishments to pass.

Tasks and Gates

Completing the Phases

<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">The Continuous Improvement Development System (CIDS) is your step-by-step roadmap for building a business management system that actually sustains a continuous improvement culture. It removes the guesswork by sequencing what to do next and when to do it, so you’re not stitching together disconnected tools and trainings.</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">CIDS is organized into phases—so nearly all of our content slots into the right place at the right time, from early exploration through building the foundation and ramping up. That structure helps leaders align teams, focus on the few moves that matter, and make visible, compounding progress. You can start with this overview (free with a guest account) to see exactly how the system works and where you fit today.</span></p><p></p><h2 id="58120ac2-9750-47a0-a47a-98ab2a3c51fb" data-toc-id="58120ac2-9750-47a0-a47a-98ab2a3c51fb" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">USING CIDS</span></h2><h3 id="d4e2f049-999e-4931-8e2a-f04c51a8add8" data-toc-id="d4e2f049-999e-4931-8e2a-f04c51a8add8" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2;"></h3><p style="text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(15, 18, 105); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong>Getting Started</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: inherit;">Getting started is simple: enroll with a free guest account, open this overview, and start learning how to put the system to use.</p><h3 id="662e4700-adb7-4be7-ab2c-ed547c51f4b4" data-toc-id="662e4700-adb7-4be7-ab2c-ed547c51f4b4" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2;"></h3><p style="text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(15, 18, 105); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><strong>Going Further</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: left; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: inherit;">Get on a subscription plan and use the phase checklists and assortment if CIDS content (phase guides, principles, and FAQs) to map where you are and what comes next. As you move, CIDS points you to the right courses, forms, and quick-start resources—so you can learn a concept, teach your team, run a project, and embed it into your system (“Learn. Teach. Do. Build.”).</p>

Our CI Development System Overview explains what our Continuous Improvement Development System is and how it can help you. Available in all memberships, including our FREE JUMPSTART PROGRAM.

CI Development System Overview

This free course lets you get started on your Continuous Improvement Journey with no risk. It gives an overview of the phases and principles from starting out to world-class continuous improvement.