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 ...

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 ...

Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

The importance of refining healthcare processes has never been more pronounced. In the Physician MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, I learned process improvement—among other ...

Assisted living communities stand to benefit by embracing quality improvement as standard practice for sustainable change rather than as an optional add‑on.

Manufacturers on a journey to make production processes “smarter” typically start by aggregating data from around the plant with the ultimate goal of optimizing systems and operations. Of course, ...

Editor's note: Learn strategies to move beyond doing business better to achieving breakthrough process improvement by attending the webinar "Everyday Innovation, Part 3: Achieve the Impossible Through ...

I first encountered the concept of kaizen in the early 1980s through the teaching of Masaaki Imai and later through his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success. Imai explained that the ...

D. Keith McInnes, Bruce E. Landon, Ira B. Wilson, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Peter V. Marsden, Faye Malitz, Magda Barini-Garcia, Paul D. Cleary Medical Care, Vol. 45, No. 5 ...

Hospitals that implemented key processes of care as part of a broad American Heart Association (AHA) STEMI initiative over just a few years’ time had reperfusion times comparable to those seen in ...

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is a strategic approach for developing a culture of continuous improvement in the areas of reliability, process cycle times, costs in terms of less total resource ...