With a watchful eye on money coming in and out from patients, reimbursements, and donors, more healthcare organizations are closely examining existing internal processes to save their wallets and ...

Nine types of waste in business can be eliminated with good (BPM) Business Process Management via systematization. Sadly, reducing company waste is a huge untapped bottom-line enhancer for many small ...

By Isaiah ADEGOKEIf you step into a food or beverage factory, everything looks fine at first. The production lines are working, bottles are moving fast, and it seems like they will meet their daily ...

“They need a conveyor,” said the guy on my left as we observed the assembly process. Operators walked back and forth from the assembly station to bring finished parts to the shelf and to get ...

Lean thinking is a business paradigm for continuous improvement and the relentless elimination of all types of waste. Sustainable development and ‘green thinking’ are widely recognised as the new wave ...

My previous column ("Next Generation Lean: Lean Processes Need to Continuously Improve") laid out the premise that there is a significant disconnect between Lean results, namely that while there are a ...