Powerful strategies to build a lean, profitable, and sustainable service-based business. Givona Sandiford is the founder and ...

How do you build a business case for Lean Six Sigma as a non-profit? You’re not building towards record profits, so the usual business case for pursuing an implementation is out the window. As we’ve ...

Simply put, lean is the practice of creating more value with fewer resources. The concept is inspired by the Japanese management theory from Toyota, where lean concepts are designed to improve and ...

The concept of the lean startup, developed by entrepreneur Eric Ries, looks at how product development cycles can be shortened and businesses can run more efficiently by continuously measuring ...

You don’t need a partner or investors to build something that lasts. You need vision, systems and the guts to go all in on yourself. Here’s how I built alone — and why I still would, even now.

It’s not often that a manufacturer gets the opportunity to build a lean manufacturing facility from the ground up. Typically, lean is introduced into an existing plant and optimal layouts are ...

There is a myriad of reasons why most startups fail, ranging from a lack of organizational structure to minimal understanding of who their customer is or what their product should look like. Ten years ...

Friends of Timbercrest came from great distances to begin the reconstruction of a lean-to that some of them helped build 45 years ago at Camp Timbercrest, the Girl Scouts camp in Cattaraugus County.

Givona Sandiford is the founder and CEO of Melospeech Inc., an edtech company providing access to early speech therapy services. So you’ve got a service-based business idea. Maybe you’re passionate ...