July 25, 2023
By Willie Carter Process improvement can have a significant impact on your business’s agility and flexibility. By optimizing and streamlining processes, your organization can adapt more […]
July 11, 2023
Lean Six Sigma is a methodology that combines the principles of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma quality management to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance customer […]
June 27, 2023
What is Lean Process Improvement? Lean Process Improvement is a systematic approach to identify and eliminate waste or inefficiencies in a process. It involves analyzing each […]
June 6, 2023
Quantum Associates, Inc has combined some of the principles of Agile and Lean to help deliver business process improvements quickly. Our approach uses teamwork and some of the lean tools […]
April 18, 2023
Many organizations lack the structure or a procedure for correcting and preventing problems that occur in their business processes. The procedure most often used in highly […]
March 25, 2023
Improve Your Business Processes Before Automating Them I engage in exploratory meetings with many potential clients about improving their processes and many of them ask why […]
March 10, 2023
Many times organizations overlook the importance of collaboration and communication between their administrative departments. Work is completed by one department and “thrown over the wall” to […]
February 28, 2023
Becoming a process-focused organization requires a focus on process improvement and for most industrial and service organizations that is a difficult task. Failure to improve the […]
December 2, 2021
Visual management helps to support culture transformation by turning data into information that can help tell the story about the business. In her book, Beyond Heroes, […]
November 22, 2021
BY CATALYSIS Kamishibai, or process observation, is not only fun to say, but it is also an essential component of a lean management system. Process observation helps to […]
October 1, 2018
In the past software development followed the waterfall approach—trying to understand the customer’s new needs and then working on the software development for months, releasing the […]
December 31, 2019
Are You Thinking About Automating your Business Processes? Many companies are looking at one of the most recent automation technologies, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate […]
January 21, 2020
In a fast-changing marketplace, innovation and agility are the two ingredients to a successful business. They can be the difference between leading the market and becoming […]
February 15, 2020
I was introduced to the above truism by the late Joseph Juran. As a fledgling quality practitioner, I was the recipient of a great deal of […]