The healthcare industry faces the formidable challenges of rising costs and precarious profit margins. Elevated supply and labor costs, combined with structural revenue pressures, have created a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much of the discussion for Lean and other continuous improvement programs tends to focus on the shop floor. When talking Lean in Supply Chain & Logistics Management, one area that needs to be ...

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, medical practices face a host of financial challenges. The unknowns of health care reform, changing reimbursement and rising bad debt from the ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the pressure to innovate is relentless. Organizations are constantly pushed to develop state-of-the-art products, services, and business models that ...

One of the most crucial — and often most challenging — steps in changing hospital processes is gaining buy-in from physicians and staff. For changes in areas such as information technology, the ...

Creating efficient workflow processes should be a primary goal in any company. One way to problem-solve and make improvements in the workplace is to create a process improvement team. Whether it ...