Use of the Lean and Six Sigma approaches can help anesthesia teams improve quality, according to a recent industry and market news alert by Anesthesia Business Consultants CEO and President Tony Mira.

A business is run on the work of different cross-functional teams with the understanding that each person adds unique expertise and skill sets. Continuing to develop those skills through ...

Downtime, bottlenecks, duplicate steps, work silos, missed opportunities. No matter the cause, they represent wasted money, time and effort. When addressing such challenges, many organizations rely on ...

Six Sigma is a powerful methodology for process improvement and operational efficiency. However, its implementation often encounters obstacles due to common mistakes. This paper explores these ...

Lean Six Sigma is a rigorous methodology that combines the Lean concept, developed by Toyota to improve its car production system, with the Six Sigma approach developed by Motorola to increase the ...

Organizations aim to improve their processes’ efficiency and effectiveness by reducing waste, which creates a need for experts in project management frameworks and process improvement techniques such ...

Pharma and Biotech Firms See Value of Operational Excellence Strategies The successes of Six Sigma, Lean, and similar operational excellence strategies are legendary in heavy manufacturing.

Quality assurance methods address quality issues in the output of businesses. Lean and six sigma principles apply approaches and metrics to a process to promote efficiency with a minimum number of ...

Implementing a well-established business approach allowed physicians to shave hours off pediatric patient discharges without affecting readmission rates, according to researchers at Penn State Hershey ...

Based on a presentation to 19th Annual Technical Conference of the GCC Chapter of the Gas Processors Association, May 4, 2011, Kuwait. Saudi Aramco's Khurais central processing plant has improved ...

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