Webinar: How to Cut Nonvalue-Added Activity in Operational Excellence Programs
(i-nexus: Coventry, UK) -- Is nonvalue-added (NVA) activity draining your operational excellence resources? Are spreadsheets not as flexible and scalable as you need them to be? Do you need to find a more effective way to create the reports demanded by senior managers?
Good Stuff Also Comes in Threes
A few years ago I was surfing the Internet on a Friday afternoon and discovered a contest asking amateurs to make TV commercials for a famous ketchup brand. The prize was several thousand dollars, and your commercial would actually run on television.
Computer Full of Data Clutter? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used, and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system's efficiency, and sap its energy.
Blocking Out the Nuisance, Part One
No, I am not writing about going, “Lalalalala! I can't hear you!” when someone is trying to tell you bad news. In the last couple of articles, we have been exploring how to properly perform research in industry.
Clinical Integration: A New Model for Cost-Effective Health Care
In our current health care environment, hospitals face increasing urgency to strengthen relationships with physicians.
Breaking the Feel-Good Task Addiction
In today’s world, we’re constantly sabotaged by nonproductive energy wasters. There are e-mails to read, Facebook statuses to update, receipts to locate for that already-late expense report, dishes to be washed, files to be organized, and on, and on, and on.
OpsManage 11 Industry Events Scheduled
(Invensys: Plano, TX) -- Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions, and consulting services to the manufacturing and infrastructure operations industries, will host its annual series of international user and industry events.
Register for World Standards Week
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) wishes to invite all interested parties to register for World Standards Week 2011 (WSW), to be held Oct. 11–14, 2011, in Washington, DC.