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Dr. Jim Kane addressed the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), ISO 9000, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Six Sigma alternative frameworks for process improvement for ...

Lean and Six Sigma are the perfect pair for improving customer value by reducing waste, boosting productivity, and reducing defects and variations in products and services. Lean Six Sigma combines two ...

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality ...

However, one flaw in the Lean strategy is that Lean is predicated on the assumption of a stable, contained process in which variation has little significance. In the manufacturing industry, this ...

Implementing the Lean process faced initial challenges, such as concerns that reducing resident hours might increase the burden on faculty. However, the analysis revealed that changes targeting ...

The researchers conducted a quality improvement project using a hybrid Lean process improvement workshop, identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing targeted interventions. The project was ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, one flaw in the Lean strategy is that Lean is predicated on the assumption of a stable, contained process in which variation has little significance. In the manufacturing industry, this ...