Lean Deployment

Lowering process lead time from eight days to about three hours isn't easy. You need to apply Lean thinking to the process - to identify value and eliminate waste.

Reducing Epoxy Spot Defects

A laminates company was experiencing a large increase in the number of epoxy spots left on the finished product

Leverage Product/Research Platform

How the Private Banking division of a large financial institution needed to increase the number of recommendations it made to clients.

MDS Diagnostics Improves Workflow and Turnaround Time

How Canadian-Based MDS Diagnostic Services leveled its workload, saved overtime hours and cut lab-test turnaround time nearly in half

Reducing Insurance Claim Denials and Revenue Write-offs

Hospitals lose millions of dollars a year on insurance claims that don't get paid for a variety of reasons.

Probing Saturn and Her Moons

In 2004, the Cassini orbiter and Huygens probe reached Saturn and her moons after traveling 2.2 billion miles. Prior to launch, TRIZ was used to solvge a host of technical problems requiring...

Separating Steel in Space

A steel mill that manufactured coiled sheets of stainless steel wanted to be flexible in delivering different coil widths to different customers. At the same time, the mill didn't want to...

Reducing Printing Costs at a Health Care Insurance Company

In business, as in life, oversimplifying a problem can be unwise. Our assumptions may not tell the real story.

Alternative Investments

How the Financial Accounting (FA) department (Americas) of a large bank deployed its cash-processing function for its private-equity-fund investments to Pune, India.

MIS Production Process Improvement

How the Private Banking Management Accounting (PBMA) division of a major bank has the mandate to provide accurate information for supporting the decision-making processes.