The term “lean management” is often misunderstood. Lean isn’t just for manufacturing companies alone. Any business or industry can leverage lean management to improve efficiency and output. By ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

Can Lean techniques, mastered on the factory floor, drive costs from the front office? How much money is your company losing due to wasted effort and low productivity of knowledge workers employed in ...

Critical Path-Method scheduling and Lean Construction techniques seem at first to have an inherent conflict, one focused on the long-term and the other focused on the near-term, but that isn't the ...

Lean. That’s something for big manufacturers, right? Wrong. The lean philosophy can transform nearly every business—small as well as large, service companies as well as manufacturers. If you haven’t ...

With Lean Thinking, Jim Womack and Dan Jones ushered a true (and rare) revolution in management thinking: To deliver a superior order of performance, leaders should lead from the workplace, the “gemba ...

With the financial pressures that healthcare organizations are facing, many hospitals are using traditional cost cutting methods to save money by looking at layoffs and staff reductions. Many more ...

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36th Annual State of Logistics Report: Navigating uncertainty amid rising costs and global disruptions The 36th Annual State of Logistics (SoL) Report highlights a logistics market tested by economic ...

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The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...