Continuous process improvement can benefit all aspects of life — from personal New Year’s resolutions to complex drug development. In a world where two-thirds of planned improvement initiatives fail, ...

Lean Six Sigma is a set of tools used to improve organizational processes. One tool, DMAIC, improves existing processes.

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 ...

The next time you are on the hunt for a process improvement methodology that looks explicitly for bottlenecks, the answer is the Theory of Constraints. This system enables organizations to achieve ...

Process improvement is about identifying and addressing inefficiencies that waste resources and add cost. Analysis is carried out to determine which processes and process steps are value-adding or non ...

The importance of refining healthcare processes has never been more pronounced. In the Physician MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, I learned process improvement—among other ...

Seeking to improve the process by which hearing-impaired employees request interpreters, ASC has launched a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project. Two training sessions set the stage for the project. They ...

With business growth (revenue growth and adding more customers, products and services), everything becomes more complex. When left unchecked, fractures begin to appear, and soon things start to break.