ABC Improvement Methods

featuringa process for improvement from each letter

Created by Tom Curtis 2012Blog: www.onimproving.blogspot.comPresentations: on www.slideshare.net/onimproving Email: ideamerchants@gmail.comTwitter: @onimproving

Contents: 26 methods for improving something

Directions: Review them and find one to try

Goals: Make something better Trigger the mind

Have a little fun

Disguise: Quaint ABC book

AAssess

Assert

Align

Assign

Audit

Adjust

B

Blueprint

Build

Beautify

Better

C

Conceptualize

Create

Cycle

Correct

DDecide

Design

Develop

Demo

Do

E

Engage

Evaluate

Enhance

Ensure

F

Focus

Find

Fix

Flow

G

Gather

Generate

Gage

Give

H

Hear

Heed

Help

Heal

IInvestigate

Identify

Improve

Install

Instill

J

Judge

Jam

Justify

K

Knead

Know

Kaizen

Keep

L

List

Lift

Language

Loose

M

Make

Measure

Modify

Master

NNotice

Noodle

Name

Nurture

Normalize

O

Observe

Officiate

Order

Operate

PProspect

Pick

Postulate

Prepare

Practice

Produce

Q

Question

Qualify

Queue

R

Review

Reset

Rework

Retrain

S

Survey

Select

Strengthen

Seal

T

Test

Treat

Train

U

Understand

Upgrade

Universalize

V

View

Vary

Verify

Voice

W

Watch

Work

Water

X

X-ray

Y

Yearn

Yammer

Yarn

Yield

z

Zone

Zoom

Zap