You’re probably familiar with the principles of lean manufacturing. Stripped to its roots, lean focuses on decreasing waste, increasing value to the customer and a process of continuous improvement.

Steve Swinney is CEO of Kodiak Building Partners, a leader in the building materials industry that manages locally led companies. In the world of business, everyone is focused on value creation, but ...

In this session, you will gain an understanding of how to develop an effective continuous improvement program in order to achieve breakthroughs in performance and attain superior, measurable results.

Continuous Improvement (CI) is a term we hear a lot lately. Sadly, despite knowing the term and possibly even applying CI principles to some aspects of operations, CI principles are infrequently ...

A continuous quality improvement program, based on Lean concepts and including architectural, managerial, and organizational features, allows the emptying of emergency department corridors and the ...

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 ...

Deming says ‘your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you get.’ My experience so far completely agrees with Deming in this respect,” says Mark Porter, Operator Driven Reliability (ODR ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is continuing its efforts to disseminate knowledge on how operational safety performance at nuclear installations can be continuously improved. This ...

The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

Congratulations! Your IT disaster recovery planning project has reached its final stages. The previous stage was to draw up strategies for disaster recovery testing. Now it is time to map out plans ...

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