I feel, to be more specific the CI projects are such projects which give valuable directions, targets, responsibilities and give clear cut value addition. However Muda Elimination is also considered as CI project, but how do you eliminate waste so that it does not occure again that should be prime focus.
CI in our factory are e.g.
(i) Improvement of Metal Recovery from X% to Y% in T period of time.
(ii) Achieve Zero PPM rejection in one stream of product.
(iii) Reduce of paint consumption from X% to Y%
(iv) Increment of Motivation level of employee from X Score to Y score.
(v) At least 4 launching of new products.
etc, etc.