Design of process and organizational innovation application methodology

This paper reports on the current situation in many companies involved in improving their processes using industrial engineering methods. But the room for their use is still shrinking. There is a need for innovative approaches to be applied in the areas of process and organization for business competitiveness. This, however, affects management methods and approaches, which may be reasons for failure, as described in this paper. Opinions are supported by findings two kind of research. Quantitative research focuses on the weights of influences on business performance and applications of selected methods in industrial engineering companies. The second research inform about results of characteristics of improvement projects and approaches to improvement from conducted case studies in manufacturing companies are also listed. The results show the need for applications that cannot be random, but rather systemic. The conclusion of this paper is also an objective, whereby the design of a methodology for process and organizational innovation application is carried out