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Your supervisor is unclear on the difference between continuous improvement or quality control. She asks you to prepare a memo (please be sure to put this in business e-mail format) explaining the two terms, how they are different, and which is better.

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Continuous improvement is an effort to seek improvement in terms of processes, tasks, activities on a continuous basis in order to improve the performance, efficiency, productivity and quality.

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Continuous improvement is an effort to seek improvement in terms of processes, tasks, activities on a continuous basis in order to improve the performance, efficiency, productivity and quality. In other words, it is a constant effort and application of innovative ...

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