Outscaled, a consulting and digital product company redefining modern sales enablement, today announced record-breaking performance with 120% ...

The Japanese word Muda loosely translates as waste. The core element of lean manufacturing is to eliminate waste–or, in more North American terms, to “cut the fat.” While applying lean concepts to ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. One of the ways generative ...

The value stream represents so many processes and activities that refining them individually is nearly impossible. The only way to do it is to harness and distribute process information to the right ...

Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that small businesses can use to reduce waste and improve performance throughout their organization. The approach centers on the use of structured techniques and tools ...

“Lean” methodology creates quality improvement and leadership capacity, which is currently missing in ambulatory care settings. Failure to create this capacity will minimize transformation efforts.

Hospital and health system CEOs have described middle managers as integral to their organizations’ success. As this tier of leadership takes on growing responsibility, health system CEOs are focusing ...

Lean Six Sigma, traditionally used in manufacturing, offers a powerful framework for improving efficiency and quality in ...

Lean manufacturing is a production system that eliminates waste through all steps in the process to build a product. Companies using lean systems work to reduce costs, inventory and cycle time -- the ...

Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.-- Having served as an Army engineer for 20 years, Anthony Lewis recognizes a problem when he sees one. Armed with a determination to take challenges head on, he recently ...