Financially strapped and under pressure to stretch strained resources, public school districts share many of the same challenges faced by other government departments to eliminate wasteful practices ...

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is a strategic approach for developing a culture of continuous improvement in the areas of reliability, process cycle times, costs in terms of less total resource ...

Built to help you solve problems and seize opportunities within six strategic business practices—nine if you count our inaugural, co-located ID&E Show targeted to engineering professionals—the ...

Many hospitals are adopting the lean methodology for improving efficiency and safety. When used in the operating room, lean may speed turnover times, improve first case on-time starts and reduce the ...

Lean Six Sigma is a structured, data-driven approach to quality and waste reduction that integrates seamlessly with Agile, ...

How can university processes be more efficient and sustainable? Here’s how one continuous improvement team took a viral approach to efficiency through lean thinking, lean leadership and lean toolkits ...

Workshops can also be scheduled for additional department training or a department retreat. If your department would be interested in a workshop we can work with you to schedule it at a time ...

Michigan Tech’s Lean transformation uses an embedded Lean practitioner model that has our frontline supervisors and employees solving problems and making improvements. In this model, the Office of ...

On the face of it, standardization and improvement may be viewed as extreme opposites. We look at the benefits of standardization. Some standardization benefits are specific to lean. Breaking down ...