Operational excellence enables an enterprise and its leadership to continuously improve all areas of performance, including decision-making, ongoing investment, profitability, customer and partner ...

In the broadest sense, operational excellence involves making continuing improvements to a company in order to achieve a competitive advantage. In doing so, companies maximize value for the customer ...

When people at every level contribute to how work gets done, you don’t just gain efficiency. You gain resilience.

Following part one in this two-part series about operational excellence (OpEx) in the power industry, Hexagon discusses the value of setting milestones to help reach OpEx goals. In addition, the ...

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The best old-school manufacturing focused on operational excellence. It was about controlling variability, adhering to schedules, reducing costs, and balancing supply and demand. It was good, but only ...

ITC and collaborators restored a mowed turf grass electrical transmission corridor back to a natural prairie in an effort to improve biodiversity and enhance the wildlife habitat. The power grid ...

For the power and utility sector, operational excellence allows every member of a plant to visualize how workflows operate to produce optimal output. Doing so enables all personnel to identify issues ...

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Michael J. Brough is director of planning and programs for the Washington-based National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. He coordinates the organization’s Standards for Excellence program ...

Many companies drive operational excellence into their operations. Yet when asked exactly what it is, there is always hesitation. Answers such as "It's about process quality (making perfect parts ...