The move to standardize processes has gone overboard, say M. Eric Johnson and Joseph M. Hall in this month’s Harvard Business Review. Some processes, they argue, are more akin to art than science and ...

While the goal of process standardization and simplicity makes good sense on paper, the business reality of localization and customization demands, coupled with various government regulations and ...

The production of formal, accredited standards has to be a repeatable process. The quality and integrity of the results depends on it. Like all good engineering practices, well-documented processes ...

TruMethods is developing a secure, multi-tenant tool to help managed service providers deisgn, implement and manage customers in their own "company way," according to company executives. Through a ...

There is an interesting secret within the biggest trend in service delivery in an effort to compete globally in volatile times. As global enterprises move toward global process standardization, many ...

SEMI spoke with Udo Gómez, senior vice president at Robert Bosch GmbH, about MEMS technology requirements relative to standard IC design and manufacturing. Gómez highlighted solutions to challenges of ...

To produce standards of high quality and integrity, a standards organization must have a repeatable, documented, proven process. The IEEE Standards Association is a fine example of possessing such a ...

Leading German filtration company MANN+HUMMEL has adopted Celonis’ Execution Management System (EMS) in a bid to scale process standardization across the organization, extract value and help with its ...

In 2012, Deloitte Consulting AG asserted -- in a report titled "Facing the Procurement Challenge: Deloitte's Procurement Strategy Practice" -- "Procurement has made great progress as a function over ...