(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Why is it that some improvement efforts succeed while others fail despite robust change management programs and the often do-or-die pressure to improve? Quite simply, there are three elements that separate those that succeed from those that fail.

Emerging nations, long seen as a source of low-cost services such as manufacturing and IT support, now are home to a new breed of multinational company.

Starting from scratch, Gil had slowly built a small business and was running it quite successfully.

Innovation is a popular buzzword in the business world today. Everyone wants to be the next Apple or Facebook, revolutionizing their products and services by creating the next iPad or Zappos-style service model. But they don’t. They can’t.

(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has just completed work to provide identical structure, text, and common terms and definitions for management system standards of the future.

(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. voluntary standardization system, has announced the first accreditations of health information technology (HIT) certification bodies under the U.S.

(Renishaw: New Mills, UK) -- the RESOLUTE UHV is the latest ultra-high vacuum (UHV) compatible read head from Renishaw, offering true-absolute position feedback, submicron

(TÜV Rheinland: Newtown, CT) -- TÜV Rheinland Industrial Solutions (TRIS) will hold a free webinar to discuss the benefits of nondestructive inspections using the phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) method, an advanced method of ultrasonic testing that can reveal defects in material that canno

(Cognex: Natick MA) -- Cognex Corp., a global manufacturer of machine vision systems, has introduced the In-Sight 7010, an entry level vision system developed specifically for inspection tasks where vision sensors are too limited and

(CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL) -- The consequences of taking on risk can be ruinous to personal finances, professional careers, corporate survivability, and even nation states. Yet many risk managers do not have a clear understanding of the basics.