The Difference is Dollars
According to the 2020 Quality Progress (QP) salary survey from the American Society for Quality, those certified in Six Sigma are paid considerably more than their colleagues.1 In fact, the higher the level of Six Sigma certification the higher the salary. ...
Proficiency Testing to Identify Issues and Improve Quality
“Know the benefits and regulatory requirements of Proficiency Testing (PT) for your clinical laboratory.” Proficiency Testing is required by CLIA for all moderate and high complexity clinical laboratories but is also an important external quality...
It’s a Matter of Margins: Broadcasting the Cost Cutting Goal to Every Level of the Organization through the Hoshin Kanri Methodology
What would your profit margin look like if all employees were proficient in the process of data collection, root cause analysis and creative problem-solving to identify and eliminate waste in the laboratory? How could each employee make a contribution to the bottom...
Empowering Employees with Cost Cutting Authority
What If And Why Not Empower The Employees? Worker empowerment is assigning employees the authority, autonomy and responsibility to make change within a leadership specified framework. Working in this manner can ease the manager workload and assist the...
Lean in the Laboratory: Is a Successful Lean Initiative Similar to Rounding a Herd of Cats?
Diagnostic Laboratories today are faced with economic challenges, staffing shortages and government reimbursement reductions. These challenges are threatening the already small margins on which laboratories depend and are driving laboratories to critically evaluate...Divi LMS Child Theme
