Continuous process improvement can benefit all aspects of life — from personal New Year’s resolutions to complex drug development. In a world where two-thirds of planned improvement initiatives fail, ...

Companies that can successfully implement continuous development throughout their organization find dramatic strategic benefits. Agile made its public debut in 2001 with the publication of the ...

Process and Control Improvement (PC&I) project planning is quite critical to the health of your business. Establishing a process improvement initiative helps maintain both quality and efficient ...

While working on a continuous improvement (CI) team, how many times have you been frustrated by the "analysis paralysis" of the team leader/facilitator who is trying to make sure that everything is ...

Lean is a business philosophy applicable to any kind of work process at any kind of business. The premise: driving out waste in all of its forms will lead to better value for the customer. It means ...

Implementing a program of continuous quality improvement can increase customer satisfaction, reduce production waste and improve company performance. To introduce such a program, you have to make sure ...

The news reports were chilling. Some 200,000 people were injured with more than 2,500 fatalities from the methyl isocyanate release at Bhopal. Could it happen at your company? At the time of the ...

Inefficiencies from out-of-stocks, planogram disarray, and slow checkout processes cost North American retailers an estimated $128 billion a year.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- A Program Executive Office for Aviation Logistics Management Specialist received a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt for his leadership in increasing the Cargo Helicopters project ...

Every company at least gives lip service to "agility." What organization wouldn’t want the ability to adapt more quickly and succeed in a rapidly changing environment and marketplace? Leaders ...