At an Huntsman Cancer Institute Clinic, providers are often delayed in how soon they see a patient during a new visit appointment. Typical delays (wait time) from check-in to provider page was 20 ...

To the average American not employed as an industrial engineer or a member of a problem-solving team at some big business, the term “root causes” would have seemed obscure until a few weeks ago. But ...

When there’s a major systems outage or performance issue, IT teams come to the rescue to restore services as quickly as possible. Some IT organizations follow IT service management (ITSM) incident ...

Two expectations informed end-users have of electric motor service centers are reliable best practice repairs and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to prevent recurring failures. Service centers ...

Have you ever felt like you're playing a frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole with tech problems? You fix one bug, only for another to pop up somewhere else. This is especially relevant when you're ...

Are you relying on gut feel to diagnose difficult problems in your organization? If the answer is yes, there is a good chance you are going to be led astray. Why? Because “until you really take the ...

Sakichi Toyoda created the "Five Whys" (5Ys) as a method for identifying root causes of errors or problems way back in the early years of Toyota. He claimed that by asking "why?" five times, one could ...