CRAGSMOOR, N.Y. — In the mid-19th century, Thomas Botsford built the Sam’s Point Mountain House to provide access to one of the Hudson Valley’s most iconic destinations. Botsford also laid out a ...

As we have previously covered on this blog, the primary purpose of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology is to eliminate waste and reduce variation in manufacturing, service and design processes, thus ...

In 25 years of experience as a senior executive, I've seen many leaders struggle to develop an effective and comprehensive strategy. Whether it’s because of short-term pressures, fear of risk, denial ...

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 ...

Hawkes processes represent a class of self-exciting point processes wherein each event increases the likelihood of subsequent events occurring over a short period. Initially developed by Alan Hawkes ...

Elon Musk once wrote, "Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist." So as a smart accounting firm, are you ...

There is a stoop in Beaufort that leads to nowhere. Spouting from tangled ivy, the staircase scales nine steps and then drops off. That’s what most people see when strolling past the .44 acre lot in ...