Continuous Improvement
What is Continuous Improvement?
An ongoing effort to improve products, services, and processes incrementally over time through small, sustainable changes.
Terms that appear alongside continuous improvement
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as continuous improvement. The number is how many controls name both.
- audit 18 shared controls
- governance 17 shared controls
- compliance 14 shared controls
- lessons learned 13 shared controls
- nist 12 shared controls
- policy 12 shared controls
- cybersecurity 9 shared controls
- risk assessment 7 shared controls
Frameworks that govern continuous improvement
What the standards actually require on continuous improvement
Requirements naming continuous improvement across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The plan must require continuous improvement practices for detection processes tied to the governance reviews of the program and plan, including review of lessons learned.
api-1164::DE.DP-5 · DE.DP-5 Continuous improvement of detection processes with lessons learned →Identical to IS.I.OR.260: effectiveness and maturity of the ISMS assessed with adequate performance indicators on a predefined calendar basis and after any incident; improvement measures on deficiencies and reassessment of the affected elements.
easa-part-is-information-security-in-aviation::IS.D.OR.260 · IS.D.OR.260 Continuous improvement →The provider must use a quality system to enable and drive continuous improvement of its delivery of funded aged care services (see also s 147 of the Act and the continuous improvement conditions).
ACQS25-2.5 · 15-15(5) Quality system that drives continuous improvement →The quality management system drives continuous improvement using outcomes, risk-related data, evidence-informed practice and feedback from participants and workers.
australia-ndis-practice-standards-and-quality-indicators::core-11.3 · Quality management: continuous improvement from data and feedback →Every registered provider (Rules section 147-5) must demonstrate the capability for, and commitment to, continuous improvement towards the delivery of high quality care, meaning improvement is resourced, measured and acted on rather than asserted.
aged-care-act-2024-australia::147.1 · Section 147(1): demonstrate capability and commitment to continuous improvement →An overall quality plan promoting continuous improvement is maintained and regularly communicated, including the need for and benefits of improvement: a platform shares good practice and captures information on defects and mistakes for learning;
cobit-2019::APO11.05 · APO11.05 Maintain continuous improvement →Questions people ask about continuous improvement
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