Rising costs, uneven quality and mounting regulatory pressures have characterized the healthcare community for years. While long-term solutions still remain something of a pipe dream, an increasing number of healthcare …
Businesses rely on processes to help manage everyday tasks. Some processes are large and sophisticated while others may be small and simple. Examples can include processes for hiring and firing, …
Design of Experiments (DOE), one of the most valuable Six Sigma tools, is a technique that helps find critical relationships often hidden inside overwhelming amounts of data. Design of Experiments …
Project failure is more common than we would like to think. In spite of careful planning, strong management support and a team’s best efforts projects come in overdue, over budget …
The infographic below was created by Midlake Products, a precision sheet metal manufacturer located in Louisville, Ohio, specializing in the design and manufacturing of custom hinges and hinge products. Midlake understands the real …
Data warehousing can be made more efficient and errors in its processes can be greatly reduced by using Six Sigma methodology. Quality and improvement specialists recognize Six Sigma as the …
Large-scale projects executed with foresight, determination and technical brilliance that end up making the problem worse are frequently compared to the Maginot Line. Understanding this famous failure can actually help …
In the movie “Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner is told that if he builds it, they will come. In Hollywood terms, that statement envisioned a baseball diamond in a corn field …
Corporations, government agencies and nonprofit entities have one thing in common: they are all under pressure to continuously improve their processes and increase the quality of their products and services. …
It’s a longstanding office joke – some companies need to have a meeting just to schedule a meeting. But the reality for project managers is that meetings are an essential component of …
