Many manufacturers treat continuous improvement like free samples at Costco — tasting a little bit of this and a little bit of that to see what they like. That can lead to good results, but a risk is ...

In today's highly competitive marketplace, organizations need to have the ability to execute effective business strategies consistently and achieve long-term sustainable growth; otherwise, they'll ...

More than 5,200 workers were fatally injured on the job in 2023, an average of 15 people every day. A significant portion of those fatalities occurred in high-risk industries like utilities, where ...

Banks can employ the best people, but if their internal operations are supported by complex and broken technology, it will affect the smooth running of their operations. In turn, this will impact the ...

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According to the Process Excellence Network, 2025 will see a laser focus on operational excellence as a pillar of survival and competitiveness. Optimized process flows -- the right people, following ...

In the past, health system leaders were almost solely concerned with delivering clinical excellence to patients. Operating efficiency wasn’t as essential to success as it is now — striking the right ...

Most organizations continuously strive to achieve operational excellence, but they spend less effort understanding customer needs — and few marry these two sources of customer value effectively. While ...

MLOps (machine learning operations) represents the integration of DevOps principles into machine learning systems, emerging as a critical discipline as organizations increasingly embed AI/ML into ...

At first glance, the chief information security officer (CISO) and chief operating officer (COO) appear to operate in fundamentally different worlds — perhaps even at odds with one another. While the ...