The increase in risk and capex to exploit new reserves in ultradeepwater areas is causing the offshore industry to adopt lean management techniques. Aug. 15, 2003 Click on the pdf link below to view ...

Lean leadership is (and remains) fundamentally about one thing: respect for people. In health care, lean leaders exist to serve the next level closer to the patient and maximize value for both ...

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 ...

Lean management principles such as Jidoka and Andon can significantly contribute to Lean Laboratory performance. The new “First-Defect-Stop Guide” from METTLER TOLEDO advocates rapid identification ...

Applying Lean Six Sigma quality management techniques allows service management professionals to eliminate activities that add no value to customers, decrease costs, eliminate defects, reduce ...

In the first four parts of this lean energy management (LEM) series we have laid out the logic for adoption of lean management techniques common to other manufacturing industries like automotive and ...

Applying "lean" techniques to the airline industry can significantly improve operations and give carriers a competitive advantage. Since its genesis in the 1950s, lean manufacturing has proven ...

Big data continues to be the new frontier for many businesses, but an organization can’t just collect all the data it can and expect it to do work for them. They need to carefully manage that data, ...