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Process Improvement

What is Process Improvement?

The systematic approach to identifying, analyzing, and enhancing existing business processes to optimize performance and meet new standards.

Governance

What the standards actually require on process improvement

Requirements naming process improvement across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Change the processes that create, update and use data so that the errors analysed do not come back, putting the developed solutions in place and checking that they work; this is the Act stage, in which process performance is improved continually.

iso-8000-data-quality::61:6.5.4 · 6.5.4 Process Improvement for Data Nonconformity Prevention (DQI.3) →
COBIT 20192 controls

The enterprise keeps up, and regularly communicates, why continuous improvement of information security is needed and what it brings; it gathers and analyses data about the ISMS and improves the system through corrective action where that is warranted.

cobit-2019::APO13.03 · APO13.03 Monitor and review the information security management system (ISMS) →

Management maintains a process for recommending changes, develops improvement strategies for operations and prioritises projects by potential benefit and ease of implementation with a focus on important IT processes and core competencies, measures the results...

ffiec-it-examination-handbook::AIO-VI.D.4 · VI.D.4 Continuous Improvement (Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations) →

Data management processes are standardized organization-wide and a continuous process improvement program is applied to the initiative, so that processes can be repeated, sustained, measured and audited, in line with best practice;

edm-council-dcam-data-management-capability-assessment-model::2.5 · 2.5 Data Management Process Standardization →

Implement and operate the manufacturing process prepared in phase 6 and establish RAMS-centred assurance arrangements: quality assurance measures suited to the RAMS requirements, manufacturing process improvement and assurance, environmental stress screening a...

en-50126-en-50128-en-50129-railway-applications-rams::50126-1:7.8 · Phase 7: Manufacture →

Questions people ask about process improvement

What is Process Improvement?
The systematic approach to identifying, analyzing, and enhancing existing business processes to optimize performance and meet new standards.
Why is Process Improvement important for compliance?
Process Improvement is a key concept in Governance. Understanding process improvement helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,027 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Process Improvement?
Process Improvement appears in the requirement text of Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) v4.1 - Process Assessment Model, ISO 8000 - Data Quality, COBIT 2019, FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, EDM Council DCAM - Data Management Capability Assessment Model. Across these standards we have identified 15 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Process Improvement?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how process improvement applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,027 frameworks.

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