Across enterprises, no business process -- purchase to pay, order to cash, customer service, supply chain, IT service management -- always works exactly as planned. Gaps arise either due to changes to ...

Process inefficiency can create problems that quietly stifle productivity and potential growth. In an era of rapid digitalization, companies that lag in business process improvement risk falling ...

Federal agencies face growing pressure to modernize outdated IT systems to meet evolving mission demands, improve service delivery and strengthen cybersecurity. But modernization must go beyond ...

For many years, enterprises have sought to automate their processes by making them digital. But in the past, that automation has often left gaps, either because the designers of the automation omitted ...

Efficiency is a management concept with a long history, running from scientific management to business process reengineering. In the early 20th century Harrington Emerson, an engineer, argued that an ...

Manufacturers can identify and reduce waste using tools such as value-stream mapping. Process efficiency programs at pharmaceutical companies-whether called operational excellence, lean manufacturing, ...

The bacterial host Escherichia coli provides an attractive industrial protein production approach in terms of time and cost efficiency. Microbial production technology is straight forward, safe, and ...

Energy makes up 80 percent of the cost of owning and operating a motor over its lifespan. That’s why motor makers have spent decades trying to build ever more energy-efficient designs. But with ...