TIME for performance improvement: Targeting innovation in manufacturing engineering

Performance improvement capability isrelated to an organization’s ability to utilize afundamental asset, the knowledge that resides with itsemployees, together with learning from past projectsand having good links to external knowledge sources.Firms that develop mechanisms to encourageconversation between individuals and teams to takeplace, particularly in today’s post job securityeconomic climate, can witness performanceimprovement at the individual and team level, andthence to the overall performance of the organization.This paper reports on performance improvement workthat is taking place with the case study company, apost-lean organization, in order to develop its capacityfor team and organizational learning and