As employees find new ways to improve a system or process, it is important to have a way to capture their ideas. can be understood as finding a better way or as a lesson learned.

Continuous improvement can be understood as finding a better way or as a lesson learned.

In this context, continuous improvement processes are ongoing efforts to improve certain methods or systems, in order to increase the effectiveness of an organisation with regard to its policy and objectives. In a more general sense, continuous improvement is also used to develop better products or services.

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there are isolated pockets of farming, generally around rivers and oases, which are used for irrigation.

an informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.