Collaboration services such as teamware, instant messaging, and Web conferencing have the potential to generate vast operational efficiencies for most businesses by driving down coordination costs.

This action collaborative was established under the auspices of the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development to help frame, map, and synergize activities across the biomedical innovation ecosystem.

Process mapping is a valuable tool for individuals and businesses aiming to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and maintain operational continuity. By visually representing workflows, you can ...

Process mapping is a vital technique for visualizing and understanding business processes. It allows you to outline each step involved in a workflow, effectively transforming the invisible into the ...

Most companies want to scale efficiently, but few truly understand the mechanics of how work gets done. That’s where business process mapping comes in. Business process mapping visually outlines how ...

Value stream map vs. process map, which is better for you? As with many tools and methods in Six Sigma, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to mapping things out. Both of these tools have ...

Healthcare design is a complicated, iterative process of back-and-forth communication between stakeholders and the design team. The first step is understanding the purpose of the building or space to ...

Kevin Curtis inherited a problem that had been hanging around for years. 1 Psychiatric patients in the emergency department were waiting too long for a bed at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute ...

Workflow, a set of tasks grouped into processes, require the interaction of people and resources to accomplish defined goals. Methodologies for examining workflows, like care coordination, equipment ...

The virtues of writing something down cannot be overstated. Especially given we’re all feeling the pressure from an industry with ongoing labor shortages, large-scale projects, stronger than-ever ...

What Is Value Stream Mapping (VSM)? What is a value stream? A value stream represents the series of actions an organization takes to design, create, and deliver a product or service to its customers, ...