“Lean” methodology creates quality improvement and leadership capacity, which is currently missing in ambulatory care settings. Failure to create this capacity will minimize transformation efforts.

Although the official percentage is debatable, on average well over 60% of lean transformation efforts fail. With so many resources available today, from books to articles to consulting firm after ...

Today’s businesses are under constant attack from cybercriminals determined to gain illicit access to their networks, steal information or money and generally wreak havoc. While this is a current–and ...

Lean manufacturing is a production theory that emphasizes the elimination of waste in all forms. Resource expenditures that do not contribute to the value of a product are wasteful in a lean ...

Dr. Adil Dalal, DBA is CEO, keynote speaker, leadership guru, author of 4 books, and winner of numerous prestigious global awards. Lean technology, also known as the Toyota Production System (TPS), ...

Quality assurance methods address quality issues in the output of businesses. Lean and six sigma principles apply approaches and metrics to a process to promote efficiency with a minimum number of ...

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 ...

Easier, better, faster, cheaper. No four words describe the lean business philosophy in simple, common sense terms more concisely than those. It is quite possible that the reason so many business ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...