(FSCI: Orlando, FL) -- Florida hospitals and surgeons recently launched a new initiative to improve patient safety and the quality of surgical care while reducing costs throughout the state.

(The L.S. Starrett Co.: Athol, MA) -- The L.S. Starrett Co., a global manufacturer of precision tools and metrology equipment and other tools, has introduced the Galileo AV230+, a small, rugged video-based, multi-sensor measurement system.

(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- Health care managers interested in operational excellence are invited to the University at Buffalo’s (UB) health care improvement conference, “Sustaining Improvement: Using Lean Six Sigma as a Path to Excellence” on Sept.

(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc.’s (API) volumetric error compensation (VEC) is an innovative process that establishes a new methodology in volumetric error compensation for large machine tools.

In part one of this series I described what dyslexia is and how I linked “dyslexia” with “lean.” I described how, despite the many positive attributes of people with dyslexia

This three-part series about strategy and its execution is based on Richard Lepsinger’s book, Closing the Execution Gap: How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results (Jossey-Bass/A. Wiley, 2010).

With so much focus on customers, we often lose sight of our employees and the critical roles they play in our organizations.

(John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ) -- When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult.

(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) is proud to announce the expansion of its laboratory accreditation activities to encompass the ENERGY STAR program, the joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S.

(QMI/Visual-Lean Institute: Byron Center, MI) -- The world’s first Visual Workplace Summit will show you what workplace visuality is, why it’s so important, and how the technologies of the visual workplace can help.