Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...

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In an era of digital disruption, IT organizations need to move faster. Given this, should CIOs be active enablers of continuous improvement? Several years ago, I reviewed ITIL Version 3.0. When I got ...

Adopting a "30-inch view" of people and performance can lead to dramatic reductions in injury rates and significant gains in profitability, while creating a culture of respectful employee engagement.

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“Respect for people” is one of the most critical lean principles, and also one of the most misunderstood. If not practiced, developing a lean culture of continuous improvement is impossible. Most ...

As a follow-up to my last column, 'Must Have' Metrics for Continuous Improvement, the next must-have metrics are first pass yield (FPY) and rolled throughput yield (RTY). While most companies I visit ...

To truly modernize accreditation, technology implementation could adapt advanced risk assessment practices used in other sectors to the higher education context. For example, in the financial services ...

An observation program is a critical process that will provide the data to identify what and where risks are occurring. Every OH&S professional aims to reduce incidents and injuries, but is their ...