(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of overcoming the challenges that today’s companies face.

In a busy laboratory at the Fuller E. Callaway Jr.

(NTOCC: Washington, D.C.) -- The National Transitions of Care Coalition (NTOCC), an organization dedicated to improving patient transitions through the health care system—i.e., when the patient leaves one care setting and moves to another care setting—has launched a new tool to facilitate the adv

Lean transformations might be easier if we possessed some measure of the sixth sense—extrasensory perception (ESP).

(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal, designer and manufacturer of production dimensional measuring technology, will be featuring the addition of an economical and powerful new skidless surface evaluation system to its MarSurf line of mobile surface metrology systems at Manufacturing 4

(IBM: New York) -- Small businesses, which are catalysts for the U.S.

(Reuters: New York) -- A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve the health outcomes of patients, according to a large, long-term study.

(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Have you thought about using lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you’re already using lean, but you need to get up to speed.

(Booz & Co.: New York) -- Confirming pessimism about the state of the pharmaceutical industry, a recent survey of U.S.- and European Union-based pharmaceutical sales and marketing executives reveals that 68 percent believe “the current business model is broken.” The survey, conducted jointly