In Louisville, Kentucky, Greg Fischer, businessman and Six Sigma Black Belt, became mayor in 2010. He initiated the transformation of public service through two strategic actions: LouieStat: An
Twin Cities’ Habitat for Humanity ReStore first opened in 2008 in New Brighton, Minnesota. First, they outgrew their building. Then in 2015, they added Vonigo’s donation pickup software.
David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. Today it’s North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website, with millions of visitors
For the 6th year in a row, the Sustainable Development Division of IISE coordinated a volunteer event prior to the annual conference. The event took place at the
In 2012, Louisville Metro setup a process improvement team to help solve problems within the city. Steve Pollock explains how he helped shift the internal improvement experts from
Racine Unified School District is working to continuously improve its practices by using the Lean Six Sigma method. The district began using Lean Six Sigma in February 2017.
Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. This fall, her book based her own experiences using
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer (IISE) Sustainable Development Division has created a new annual award to recognize successful improvement projects conducted with a not-for-profit (government agency, nonprofit
It seems like Six Sigma and profit go hand-in-hand. The methodology was designed around manufacturing, after all. When you hear terms like Lean or Kanban, you probably think
At CDOT, the vision for Lean is: “everyone, every day, improving every process and every product, to benefit every customer.” Lean improvements include large, cross-functional process improvements as
