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 ...
Kevin Curtis inherited a problem that had been hanging around for years. 1 Psychiatric patients in the emergency department were waiting too long for a bed at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute ...
Value stream map vs. process map, which is better for you? As with many tools and methods in Six Sigma, there isn’t a ...
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 ...