What does car manufacturer Toyota and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University have in common? More than you might think. Hospitalists at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based children’s ...

Many approaches to improving value in our health system focus on specific issues involving care delivery models such as optimizing primary care, coordinating care transitions, facilitating the care of ...

The Lean model of process improvement originated in Japan with the Toyota Production System. Many hospitals and health systems have found the model’s principles of eliminating non-value added activity ...

Safety net hospitals in California are using a car manufacturer's model to improve efficiency while saving on care costs. The car maker Toyota has an extremely efficient and organized model in place ...

As Vietnam’s productivity is one of the lowest in Asia, the “Made in Vietnam” lean management model is considered an effective solution to the country’s productivity issues in the Industry 4.0 era. As ...

In the business sector, rapid experimentation techniques have become a widely used means of facilitating innovation. Yet so far nonprofit organizations and their funders have been relatively slow to ...

At time when “big data” is all the rage, the leaders and funders of social sector organizations are asking some big questions about the challenge of gathering and using data on an appropriate scale.

Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur who launched a Tesla convertible into outer space on Feb. 6, is nothing if not audacious. So when he told investment analysts the next day that his Silicon Valley ...

A few years ago, Ian Kent had an idea for a mobile, DIY 200-square-foot home. He sketched a few designs, created computer models and settled on the name Nomad Micro Homes. Then, instead of building a ...