How do you build a business case for Lean Six Sigma as a non-profit? You’re not building towards record profits, so the usual business case for pursuing an implementation is out the window. As we’ve ...

Powerful strategies to build a lean, profitable, and sustainable service-based business. Givona Sandiford is the founder and ...

The Lean construction movement is on the march. Its parent organization, the Lean Construction Institute, celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. LCI now has 218 corporate members, 38 owner members ...

Growing a B2B business is becoming increasingly complex. The market is inundated with products thanks to the explosion of SaaS, it’s getting harder to leverage ad platforms and email, and identity ...

It’s not often that a manufacturer gets the opportunity to build a lean manufacturing facility from the ground up. Typically, lean is introduced into an existing plant and optimal layouts are ...

After a successful use of lean processes to streamline its emergency department throughput, Cincinnati-based TriHealth executives got interested in imbedding lean processes elsewhere in the system. So ...

The concept of the lean startup, developed by entrepreneur Eric Ries, looks at how product development cycles can be shortened and businesses can run more efficiently by continuously measuring ...

There is a myriad of reasons why most startups fail, ranging from a lack of organizational structure to minimal understanding of who their customer is or what their product should look like. Ten years ...

STEMpunk group photo, taken after the robotics team won the Engineering Inspiration award in Duluth, Minn. For the last five years I’ve been part of a team of students named STEMpunk, building robots ...

Givona Sandiford is the founder and CEO of Melospeech Inc., an edtech company providing access to early speech therapy services. So you’ve got a service-based business idea. Maybe you’re passionate ...