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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...