A greater share of organizations that use process improvement methodologies than those who do not say they have seen major improvement in HCAHPS scores or other patient experience performance ...

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 ...

DMAIC is an acronym for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. It is a process improvement methodology of Six Sigma that ...

Industry Insights from Thomson Reuters Institute, a part of Thomson Reuters. How has the idea of process improvement taken hold within the legal industry in the wake of the pandemic? Fred Esposito of ...

Any time an organization looks to make changes using process improvement methodologies, it often meets heavy internal resistance from the “doers.” These individuals are responsible for instituting ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s like the chicken-and-the-egg conundrum: which comes first, leadership or process improvement techniques? Recent success stories of governments using Lean Six Sigma, a process improvement program, ...

Health care organization leaders are working hard to create, update and continuously improve on their processes to align with the Triple Aim initiative (see Figure 1. Triple Aim Model). Their top ...

The Army has employed a variety of techniques for continuous process improvement (CPI) for many years. Some have resulted in projects that saved the Army millions of dollars, while other efforts have ...

With business growth (revenue growth and adding more customers, products and services), everything becomes more complex. When left unchecked, fractures begin to appear, and soon things start to break.