In today's business environment, each department of an organization has to balance various important tasks with increasingly limited resources. For example, as the chief operating and financial ...

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As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...

Applying Lean Six Sigma quality management techniques allows service management professionals to eliminate activities that add no value to customers, decrease costs, eliminate defects, reduce ...

“Lean” methodology creates quality improvement and leadership capacity, which is currently missing in ambulatory care settings. Failure to create this capacity will minimize transformation efforts.

Let’s begin with a brief run-down on just what “lean methodology” is and where it came from. Lean methodology originated mostly from the Toyota Production System. The Toyota Motor Corporation came to ...

General Manager at iObeya overseeing North American operations. Former 15-year Cisco exec and a certified SAFe (Scaled Agile) consultant. From manufacturing to distribution, vaccinating patients at ...

Lean Six Sigma is a structured, data-driven approach to quality and waste reduction that integrates seamlessly with Agile, ...

“Lean” process improvement can reduce costs, improve efficiency and make execution more predictable. Lean requires an investment and a culture change. Lean has resulted in improved execution in a ...

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The international financial environment is more interconnected than ever, with the effects of unstable or inconsistent monetary policies being felt far beyond a single organization. In today’s ...