After attending general counsel conferences and reading legal department surveys, one clear message is that the legal department must accomplish more with a smaller budget and fewer resources. This is ...

It’s like the chicken-and-the-egg conundrum: which comes first, leadership or process improvement techniques? Recent success stories of governments using Lean Six Sigma, a process improvement program, ...

The Army has employed a variety of techniques for continuous process improvement (CPI) for many years. Some have resulted in projects that saved the Army millions of dollars, while other efforts have ...

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 ...

An agile approach gives you the chance to try new methods, while constantly reviewing progress. Unfortunately, that’s completely foreign to the way in which most businesses run. All too often, ...

Knowledge and experience in quality and continuous improvement are highly valued by today's employers. The principles are being applied in engineering, healthcare, business, service, nonprofits, and ...

Process improvement methods such as Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO 9000-3 offer software developers a standardized framework for fine-tuning ...

Lean manufacturing lets you achieve high rates of customer satisfaction while controlling waste. Applying the methods of continuing, incremental improvements in the manufacturing process identifies ...

As part of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters program, this course will build on statistical process control foundations to add process modeling and optimization.Building on formal methods ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop multidisciplinary clinical process improvement methods using evidence-based medicine to decrease the incidence of pneumothorax in a NICU. STUDY DESIGN: All inborn infants <28 ...