In today's dynamic business environment, companies must adapt swiftly to changing market conditions and customer demands. Effective business process management (BPM) remains critical in ensuring this ...

From fires to employee errors, all businesses face risks. Starting a business without risk is impossible, so to run successful businesses, small-business owners must understand and prepare for the ...

Companies that want to achieve a sustainable and profitable business need to focus on three dimensions of their operations, generally speaking. First is value protection, a foundational concern that ...

Pressures to decrease cost, increase reliability, and comply with local regulations conspire to make it harder than ever for IT to deliver business services efficiently. We are fast approaching the ...

In his book "Bleeding Talent," Tim Kane argues that the U.S. military is "bleeding talent--and it's not just because of money. Talent is bleeding externally as top officers quit the ranks in ...

The No. 1 job of any CEO is to own the organization’s vision and values. This is the one job the CEO cannot delegate. Additionally, as VF’s former CEO, Rob Gregory explains, CEOs must own their ...

The last decade has seen an explosion in technologies with tremendous potential impact on a business. From internet-connected devices to the algorithms that can make sense of the mountains of data ...

There is much discussion about continuous improvement, kaizen and operational excellence pursuits in operations management. Many times, the topic of process improvement neglects the more important ...

Businesses can get a decent idea of how they are doing in operations by examining internal company data through reports and graphs. However, sometimes those close to the company don't review this data ...

The goal of the Operational Review Committee (ORC) is to provide a framework for conversations between auxiliary and support units and the university community that focus on consistently improving ...