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Can Lean Six Sigma Principles Improve Clinical Research?
Clinical research is a constantly evolving field, and one of the areas that sees the most rapid development and interest from all sides. It makes sense that new methodologies would come up on a...
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Critical Qualities of a Lean Change Agent
Becoming a Lean change agent can bring a serious improvement to your career development and professional growth, and it’s not as complicated as some people make it out to be. In fact, as long as you...
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The Christmas Night by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Christmas Night by Lucy Maud Montgomery Wrapped was the world in slumber deep, By seaward valley and cedarn steep, And bright and blest were the dreams of its sleep; All the hours of that...
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Implementing SMED Within the IT Industry
Single-minute exchange of dies – or SMED – is a methodology traditionally associated with physical production facilities, which can allow companies to reduce the time it takes to produce certain...
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Understanding the Change Acceleration Process Model (CAP)
Every product/service that a company delivers to the market inevitably goes through a transition phase which brings it to a state of improvement and overall better performance. However, this...
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5 Examples of Quick Changeovers/SMED
Have you wondered where you can see examples of quick changeovers and the concept of SMED applied in reality? The truth is that there are numerous different cases all around us, but they are sometimes...
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Integrated Project Delivery (IPD): Use in the Construction Industry
Integrated Project Delivery is a methodology that aims to fully utilize the skills of every member of the team across the whole project, as opposed to having everyone contributing to their own...
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Thoughts for Success in 2018
Savvy business leaders understand that during the month of December, there just isn’t the same focus on success. There are too many distractions. Now that the holidays are over, the clock is ticking...
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Success and Daily Rituals for 2018
Do you struggle with getting things going in the mornings? Do you lack focus or lose the basic principles of habits? Most professionals do and it is a career killer. Start your day everyday with...
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5 Steps to Improve Workforce Productivity in Facilities Management
There’s a lot that can be done on the facilities management side of things to ensure that work flows more smoothly at the office. From simple, small details, to more major projects that can take some...
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Basics of Regression Analysis
Regression analysis is an incredibly useful technique for determining the current state of your business from multiple perspectives, and mastering it as early as possible in your leadership can have...
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Practicing Operational Excellence Within Facilities Management
Operational excellence refers to the idea of satisfying the demands of the customer, while ensuring that the organization fully applies all principles and methodologies related to its field of work...
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3 Examples of Lean Process Within Facilities Management
Facilities management is a field that has seen a rapid adoption of lean principles. There’s a good reason for that too, considering how integral facilities management is to the operation of a typical...
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[VIDEO] Lean Principles – Apply the Practice to Sales
To achieve increased productivity, competitive advantage, and profitability, high value-creating businesses around the world have consistently turned to lean thinking principles for solutions....
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Lean Principles – Can You Realistically Apply Them to Sales?
What can be said about sales. It is that mysterious department located away from everyone else. You see them come and go, but you don’t really know what goes on behind closed doors. They are never...
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Improving the Productivity of the AEC Industry Through Six Sigma
The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry has gone through some very significant stages of improvement in the last few decades, but it’s very likely that we’re barely scratching...
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Best Areas of Focus for a FMEA
Failure Mode Effects Analysis – or FMEA for short – can be a very useful technique for determining where your processes are coming short, and figuring out ways to improve the overall productivity of...
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How to Eliminate Variation in Your Business
One of the biggest problems that many businesses are still facing today is uncontrolled variation. While it’s inevitable that the parameters of your operation are going to change in some ways from...
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5 Common FMEA Mistakes to Avoid
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) Failure mode and effects analysis is a solid framework for studying the reliability of system, and understanding its...
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5 Focusing Steps of TOC
Theory of constraints is a powerful methodology for improving the operation of a business or a process in general, based on the principle that every process is inherently limited by a set of...
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