Skip to main content
NIH Logo NIH Logo
Office of Research Services

Serving the NIH Community

Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted. The NIH Clinical Center (the research hospital of NIH) is open. For more details about its operating status, please visit cc.nih.gov. Updates regarding government operating status and resumption of normal operations can be found at opm.gov.

Process Improvement

​OQM can assist in developing new processes or changing existing processes to deliver services at the lowest cost and highest quality. OQM will help you to challenge the "business as usual" mindset and develop service delivery processes that will provide maximum customer satisfaction and quality at the lowest cost.



Benefits

  • Visualization and documentation of your work methods
  • Identification and reduction of non-value added work
  • Defining process measures that drive cost and quality
  • Development of measurement systems to monitor process capability
  • Correction of the root causes of high cost and poor quality
  • Development of time, cost, and quality standards that future performance can be measured against