by Johanna Madrigal jmadriga@vt.edu February 15, 2011. Dean and Bowen (1994) suggest that continuous improvement (CI) has been one of the largest advances in business management; actually there are few businesses, especially in the manufacturing sector that can ignore CI as a working philosophy; in the same situation we can find innovation which is also … Continue reading RESEARCH BRIEF: Incremental innovation and continuous improvement: Are they related?