An operations planning and economics improvement project at ConocoPhillips's Lake Charles, La., refinery successfully developed and implemented high-quality kinetic process models used for unit ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the pressure to innovate is relentless. Organizations are constantly pushed to develop state-of-the-art products, services, and business models that ...

The business world is experiencing a transformative era driven by rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This is an opportune moment for business leaders to rethink their ...

Engineering new technology and products challenges managers to balance design innovation and program risk. To do this, managers need methods to judge future results to avoid program and product ...

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality ...

The rising cost of healthcare has been an ongoing concern of the nation’s business community. When the 2001 Institute of Medicine landmark report titled “Crossing the Quality Chasm” revealed that ...

In my years of process improvement work, I've identified some problems that hinder the achievement of excellence. These are likely not unique to my experience and I want to share them with you, along ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop multidisciplinary clinical process improvement methods using evidence-based medicine to decrease the incidence of pneumothorax in a NICU. STUDY DESIGN: All inborn infants <28 ...