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May

For those of us engaged in performance improvement initiatives there seems to be a constant bombardment of “things” that seem get in the way of what we’re trying to accomplish.  Things that interfere with our attempts to achieve a goal or objective in our quest to make things better.  Some of these things come out […]

10

Nov

NOVACES has developed an innovative solution that looks beyond the normal Incident Command System (ICS) planning cycle and predictably identifies personnel, materials, equipment and costs over the entire course of an emergency response. This new application provides response teams a better analysis of the scope, resources and costs throughout completion of an incident. The National […]

12

Apr

Process improvement and innovation leaders, such as Intel, Honeywell, 3M and many other Fortune 500 businesses, have recently been incorporating TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) innovation methods into their quality programs to produce breakthrough process improvements. NOVACES applied these methods in a rapid improvement workshop to help one community hospital reduce patient length of […]