Process improvement can be a frightening concept. For many people, it signals the start of a downsizing cycle or at least a period of uncomfortable change. The truth is, process improvement has been a ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the pressure to innovate is relentless. Organizations are constantly pushed to develop state-of-the-art products, services, and business models that ...

Everyone knows what data mining is, but the term "process mining" may be new to some. According to Gartner, process mining is a methodology used to discover, monitor and improve processes that already ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...

Here, Dr. Charles Hagood, president of transformational advisory services at Press Ganey, discusses how hospitals can implement a sustainable, organizationwide process improvement approach that can ...

There is much discussion about continuous improvement, kaizen and operational excellence pursuits in operations management. Many times, the topic of process improvement neglects the more important ...

The importance of refining healthcare processes has never been more pronounced. In the Physician MBA Program at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, I learned process improvement—among other ...

Business processes need ongoing improvement to ensure that they remain up to date and relevant. Here are seven tips for promoting continual process improvement. Are your business processes crying out ...

At its core business process management is the administrative activities aimed at (1) defining a process, (2) establishing responsibilities, (3) evaluating process performance and (4) identifying ...

As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...

Process improvement is about identifying and addressing inefficiencies that waste resources and add cost. Analysis is carried out to determine which processes and process steps are value-adding or non ...

Kaizen offers a more holistic approach than most IT frameworks in that it aims to improve everything in your organization from people to processes to products.