Performance improvement processes are an integral part of an ambulatory surgery center’s long-term financial, operational and clinical success. ASCs must maintain a sound and robust performance ...

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 ...

Process improvement is often described in operational terms: streamline workflows, manage variation, eliminate waste, optimize revenue, and drive greater value to our customer. In healthcare, we ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...

Process and Control Improvement (PC&I) project planning is quite critical to the health of your business. Establishing a process improvement initiative helps maintain both quality and efficient ...

Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. The Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle is a structured ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the pressure to innovate is relentless. Organizations are constantly pushed to develop state-of-the-art products, services, and business models that ...

My aha! moment about the zero-defect concept happened in 2009. We were discussing with a customer how to document all data created during the production process in order to enable a traceability ...