Since no two things are exactly alike, variation affects us in every aspect of our lives. Surprisingly, most American managers still don't pay much attention to variation. When they do look at it, ...

LAS VEGAS – Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare will deploy the Clinical Variation Management software from Ayasdi, a developer of machine intelligence applications for healthcare. Intermountain ...

Huron Healthcare, part of Huron Consulting Group, has shared six key questions hospital executives should ask when implementing care variation management. 1. Do you have a reliable and regular way to ...

If clinical variation management were applied on a large scale, it could address the roughly $750 billion in costs each year that are spent on procedures that don’t improve patient outcomes. The ...

Special cause variation, I love to see it! That’s because I know I’m about to learn something important about my process. A ...

Statistical Process Control (SPC) provides the means for the control of product quality and the reduction of process variation. To be successful you need to know how to collect data, understand the ...

Change management is among the most complex and challenging processes Global 2000 organizations face. Indeed, many IT service quality problems can be linked directly to poor change-management ...