Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Companies across all industries today are looking at value-added services and products and ...

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 ...

What does it mean when something is non-value-added? When you look at a process, how do you know whether it’s the right ...

Process Cycle Efficiency (PCE) is a simple calculation that will define what percent of your total processing time is consumed by waste. It will also show you where that waste is and how you might try ...

Food and beverage startups that lack the space and equipment to get ahead have a new way to scale up production without outsourcing to the mainland. The Wahiawā ValueAdded Product Development Center ...

Quick: name your five best school teachers or college professors, the individuals from primary school through graduate school who made a difference – a big difference – in your education and your life ...

Prepared meats are proving to be a most potent sales performer. Demand for the traditionally higher-priced, value-added selections remain solid despite inflation with the sector’s dollar and volume ...

The president says the VAT system used across Europe gives other countries unfair trade advantages. Here’s how the system started. By Jenny Gross and Keith Bradsher Jenny Gross reported from London, ...

Work, whether it is conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional, value-added or not, is an essential part of human existence. The ability to work productively and effectively is the ...