6i Improvement Technology

Improvement can be defined as beneficial change. 6i improvement technology is a 6-step natural and universal approach to effecting this beneficial change following a simple but logical approach to tackle a present or potent problem.

The six steps are:

iNSPIRE
iDENTIFY
iNVESTIGATE
iMPROVE
iNTEGRATE
iNSTITUTIONALIZE

It does not promote any specific discipline, like TQM, Six Sigma, Kaizen, and the likes. It's more a strategy than tactics. The reason is simple, tactics are subject to change with time, environment, culture,