All businesses want to boost productivity and efficiency while reducing errors and accidents, but this is especially important for small businesses operating with tighter budgets and smaller staffs.

At a time when we are constantly being told to value the new and the different, it may come as a surprise to learn that the standard, the shared and the common can be strong drivers of transformation.

The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China set clear goals for accelerating the construction of a unified national market. The communique issued by the ...

Standardization helps hospitals and health systems reduce costs and improve clinical outcomes, but in a survey conducted by Cardinal Health, 54 percent of healthcare professionals said their ...

Contractors face unique challenges at every phase of a project — whether in planning, executing, or ongoing operations. Projects often encounter unexpected issues that require rapid problem solving.

This is Part 2 of an eight-part series featuring thought provoking insights from the Leadership in the Age of Personalization Summit. Part 1 is here. Leadership in the Age of Personalization “We are ...

If you knew — based on reliable evidence — the best way to treat a patient, you would not like to treat correctly only a fraction of your patients. However, as a group, health-care providers do just ...

There's a big difference, and it's very simple: standards are good, standardization is bad. When an industry develops to standards, what you get is competition, buyer choice, and technical progress.