Waste is any effort or processes, whether in production, administration or logistics, that's unnecessary. It makes a company hemorrhage cash. In lean manufacturing, multiple value steams are unified ...

JP Patil is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Digite, where he focuses on trying to understand how people work and how to help them get things done faster and with higher quality. There has been a ...

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Imagine if the local weather person was right every day -- for 2,739 years straight. What if the cable company offered a lifetime of free services if your technician didn't arrive within 0.000034 ...

As a business philosophy, lean focuses on creating value for customers by removing product-related preconceptions and ideas from the organization. Through constant market testing and customer insights ...

The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...