The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

According to Jeffery Liker’s book, The Toyota Way, it’s estimated that most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. Value-added activities in a process are considered those that ...

Ganesh Seetharaman is a managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. He leads Deloitte’s Technology Resiliency market offering and is recognized for delivering innovative solutions for his clients, ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently announced that it is gathering information on the role of maintenance in vehicle safety. One area FMCSA wants to focus on is understanding what ...

Mindfulness training to support advance care planning: Qualitative findings from a randomized pilot. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium ...

The US Coast Guard (USCG) needs to develop a better system to improve the way it conducts surge operations, according to 21 September report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). “The ...

At the time of the methyl isocyanate release at Bhopal, I was working in the corporate offices of a Fortune 50 company. The stillness of the air in the headquarters offices and the questions on the ...