It’s like the chicken-and-the-egg conundrum: which comes first, leadership or process improvement techniques? Recent success stories of governments using Lean Six Sigma, a process improvement program, ...

The chemical, biological and radiological threat to military installations continues to grow and expand as potential and current adversaries pursue more knowledge and expertise. The CBD Program is in ...

In a profession where we never seem to have enough people to accomplish our mission, we have been directed to reduce our workforce without reducing responsiveness. This mandate creates an incredible ...

The University of Tennessee at Martin set up a new process improvement facilitator position and gave the person who holds it no authority, no budget, and no staff. Yet that's the way he likes it, and ...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, recently recognized the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Lean Process ...

Manufacturers are climbing on the Lean bandwagon in droves. The IndustryWeek/MPI Census of Manufacturers, released in November 2007, shows that nearly 70% of all plants in the U.S. are currently ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Results of the largest U.S. outpatient heart failure clinical study show that implementation of a process improvement program significantly improved adherence to ...

The mission of Research Integrity & Security and the IRB is to verify and promote the continual ethical conduct of research. The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) has a quality improvement plan ...

A state accreditation review of Aspen Valley Hospital’s trauma department last summer found multiple deficiencies in the administration and organizational functions of the “trauma medical director,” ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality "Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving the Diagnostic Process" is a free quality improvement program designed to help practices improve the cancer ...