How to Build Flexibility Into Medical Equipment Inventories
Medical equipment is a necessary yet substantial investment for any health system.
Medical equipment is a necessary yet substantial investment for any health system.
“The worst waste,” as Shigeo Shingo once noted, “is the waste we do not see.” Photo by Ball Park Brand on Unsplash.
In a humorous moment from Steve Martin’s comedy Father of the Bride, there’s a scene where George Banks (Martin) argues with a store clerk that the number of buns in a package is mismatched with the packaged number of hot dogs: “I wanna buy eight hot dogs an
The cost of poor quality can be devastating to business: Failed quality control costs manufacturers anywhere between
Have a massive, daring goal in mind? Breaking it into smaller steps can help you achieve your dreams.
Implementing an automated compliance management solution is a mammoth undertaking with high stakes and potentially high returns for those who navigate the process successfully.
Instead of encouraging employees to be vulnerable (exposing themselves to risk), leaders need to act in ways that reduce the risk or danger. Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash.
I’ve learned so much from Timothy R. Clark of the firm LeaderFactor, and author of the excellent book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (Berrett-Koehler, 2020).
If you ever feel like some parts of your work turbocharge your day while other parts leave you running on empty, it might be time for an energy audit.
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In his Quality Digest article published in February 2023, Michael Mills1 reported that the next version of ISO 9001 will add to clause 4.1, “Understanding the organization and its context” the words, “the organization shall determine whether clima
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Tracking work orders is an essential aspect of work order management, and it becomes immensely more efficient with the help of tracking software.
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Emails that drone on and on. Meetings that could have been Slack messages. Memos loaded with empty jargon. We’re all familiar with friction, or what Robert I.
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