The move to standardize processes has gone overboard, say M. Eric Johnson and Joseph M. Hall in this month’s Harvard Business Review. Some processes, they argue, are more akin to art than science and ...

As the drive for value-based care continues, hospitals and health systems are looking for proven best practices to improve clinical outcomes, enhance safety and control costs. Whatever the goal, the ...

Standardization is hard. Why? Because overcoming resistance to change is hard. Which means communication is key as you grow your Knowledge and Process Management programs. Many organizations, ...

To produce standards of high quality and integrity, a standards organization must have a repeatable, documented, proven process. The IEEE Standards Association is a fine example of possessing such a ...

Creating process variations should always be approached with care in order to reduce unnecessary complexities and inefficiencies. These seven steps should help. “90 percent of the organizations I know ...

SEMI spoke with Udo Gómez, senior vice president at Robert Bosch GmbH, about MEMS technology requirements relative to standard IC design and manufacturing. Gómez highlighted solutions to challenges of ...

Leading German filtration company MANN+HUMMEL has adopted Celonis’ Execution Management System (EMS) in a bid to scale process standardization across the organization, extract value and help with its ...

The production of formal, accredited standards has to be a repeatable process. The quality and integrity of the results depends on it. Like all good engineering practices, well-documented processes ...