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Improvement and continual improvement

I want to know the differences between "improvement" and "continual improvement" in ISO standards. In some standards (e.g. ISO 27001) it is mentioned "continual improvement" while in others (e.g. ISO 9001) it is "improvement"

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Strahinja Stojanovic May 27, 2016

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According to ISO 9000:2015 Quality management systems -Fundamentals and vocabulary, the term "improvement" means activity to enhance performance and the term "continual improvement" means recurring activity to enhance performance. As you can see the terms are pretty similar and only difference is that continual improvement implies ongoing improvement. Both terms are widely used in all management system standards and they are not specific to ISO 27001 or ISO 9001 and can be found in both of them.

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yassineelammari May 27, 2016

Thank you M. Strahinja for your answer :)

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