Small businesses need to remain continually agile to respond to a changing business climate internally and externally. Demand shifts and technology changes. Competitors enter the market. Businesses ...

Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

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 ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...

L-R: Melissa Saturnino, David Katzman, Brenda Hurtado, Brian Foster, Lana Vernovsky, Steven Millman The Business Journals Leadership Trust By Business Journals Leadership Trust Expert Panel® Visit ...

In today’s fast-paced world, innovation and growth are key to business success for startups and maturing companies alike. “Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy ...

Process improvement can be a frightening concept. For many people, it signals the start of a downsizing cycle or at least a period of uncomfortable change. The truth is, process improvement has been a ...

In my years of process improvement work, I've identified some problems that hinder the achievement of excellence. These are likely not unique to my experience and I want to share them with you, along ...

A technique to help universities improve collaboration, reduce inefficiencies and build shared understanding across teams to ...

This course critically appraises key industrial processes by establishing their core reaction engineering and thermodynamics, identifying theoretical limits in terms of material and heat balances ...