Late this month the Air Force will meet with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., to discuss how "lean" industry principles can be applied to the service's ...

More than two decades after Motorola executives in 1986 developed Six Sigma business practices to eliminate defects and improve manufacturing operations, the company's travel procurement team relied ...

Businesses shouldn't use technology as a shortcut—they need a firm grasp on lean principles before they can uncover true ...