With more than $38 billion spent on healthcare construction this year in the U.S alone, there is a tremendous opportunity for capital projects to incorporate efficiency, safety, and patient-centered ...

Are you looking to reduce waste and improve efficiency in your printing operation? John Compton, principal at Compton & Associates LLC, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB), and senior member of ...

Many leaders complain that organizations can get in their way when it comes to innovation and efficiency. One way to cut down on bureaucratic hurdles is to implement a lean management strategy, ...

Companies adopting a Lean philosophy strive to remove or shorten time spent on activities that the customer doesn’t value. For example, although steps like estimating and makeready are thought of as ...

“Lean” process improvement can reduce costs, improve efficiency and make execution more predictable. Lean requires an investment and a culture change. Lean has resulted in improved execution in a ...

If you’re practicing lean in your organization, it is almost a certainty that you have heard of the eight deadly wastes. If you really got it together you talk about them every day with your team and ...

Is there a component of lean that’s more widely taught than The Eight Wastes? In any lean seminar or text, they are usually among the first concepts mentioned. (Sometimes, they are represented as The ...

Startups operate in a fast-paced environment where resources are scarce, time is of the essence, and the margin for error is ...

From excessive paper usage and unnecessary energy consumption to poor inventory management, workplace waste can drain resources, inflate costs, and harm your company's reputation. Implementing waste ...

Taichi Ohno, progenitor of the Toyota Production System, identified seven forms of waste, and lean insiders often add an eighth: the waste of human resources. I propose a ninth: the waste of ...

LEAN started in the automobile manufacturing industry and has spread to nearly every industry in every country. LEAN is how companies bring continuous improvement to life. It’s much simpler to ...