With a watchful eye on money coming in and out from patients, reimbursements, and donors, more healthcare organizations are closely examining existing internal processes to save their wallets and ...

LEAN started in the automobile manufacturing industry and has spread to nearly every industry in every country. LEAN is how companies bring continuous improvement to life. It’s much simpler to ...

Nine types of waste in business can be eliminated with good (BPM) Business Process Management via systematization. Sadly, reducing company waste is a huge untapped bottom-line enhancer for many small ...

In the 1990s while first learning about Japanese manufacturing and Toyota, I was also studying organizational development. A retired University of Michigan researcher, Lawrence Lippitt, ran a monthly ...

Lean thinking is a business paradigm for continuous improvement and the relentless elimination of all types of waste. Sustainable development and ‘green thinking’ are widely recognised as the new wave ...

My previous column ("Next Generation Lean: Lean Processes Need to Continuously Improve") laid out the premise that there is a significant disconnect between Lean results, namely that while there are a ...