Lean Six Sigma Across a Range of Companies
When companies choose to apply Lean Six Sigma principles to their activities, their goals are usually to do more, do it better, with less waste, …
When companies choose to apply Lean Six Sigma principles to their activities, their goals are usually to do more, do it better, with less waste, …
Why do larger companies have problems with lean management? The concepts behind Lean and its variations like Lean Six Sigma are the key buzzwords of …
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In the modern global economy, data rules supreme. In many cases data is more valuable than money, because, like the fable of the goose that …
A company cannot simply exist in the here and now. It must constantly evaluate its horizons and the intervening landscape to ensure a safe and …
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A key facet of successful performance measurement – and therefore commercial success – is that progress and performance be based on principles of measurable activity …
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Pursuing performance excellence in any industry, whether in manufacturing, service or office-based knowledge work, requires a combination of techniques that cover individual and group activity, …
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BPM: A Short Guide Business process management or BPM can easily become a buzzword and a needlessly applied and useless approach to improving your business …
For as long as there have been companies and managers, there have been schools of thought on how to do business better. Over the past …
A real estate agent and a pharmacist are standing in the “12 items or less” line at a supermarket. Next to them, where the other …
Tedious work has been an inevitable ingredient in many types of jobs for generations, but now there may be a solution in a new format: …
Lean software development also known as LSD is a translation of the lean IT principles and manufacturing practices in the software development realm. It was …
What happens when your company doesn’t understand “lean”? Since the introduction of lean manufacturing and related concepts like kaizen in the 1950’s, companies everywhere have …
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As a management concept, lean has several highly logical and practical disciplines, which at first glance tend to apply primarily to waste management, processes and …
There is a well-known principle in the world of project management that is highly applicable to day-to-day productivity both on the shop floor and in …
Continuous improvement can easily become one of those buzzwords that everyone embraces without fully understanding it. People often believe they are practicing continuous improvement …