As part of the county’s strategic plan, Miami-Dade County in Southeast Florida launched a Six Sigma Green Belt DMAIC project to reduce the # of days to provide direct relief assistance payments to domestic violence victims. This project supports the County’s 2020 strategic plan under the following objectives: HS1: Basic needs of vulnerable Miami Dade […]
Sheilah “Paddy” O’Brien recently finished writing her latest book, “Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops (RPI), a Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders.” This is a follow-on to her first book, “Lean for the Nonprofit, What You Don’t Know Can Cost You.” She briefly outlines the content of her book(s), and, through a casual interview format, share her […]
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After taking the Peak Green Belt Training, Rachel Lindgren identified an area of improvement with her team & partners, improving the overall quality of the “Intern Trails Onboarding Process” by 25-30%. Interns were frustrated that they weren’t getting their computers and gaining access to TRAILS until well into their internship (2-3 months). This delay in […]
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The grant approval and funds release process was taking too long, holding up payments to departments (hurting their cash flow), and negatively impacted their confidence in working on future grant projects. After applying Lean and Six Sigma methods to this process, they were able to achieve the following results: Time to pay invoices reduced from […]
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Clare DiFrisco is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and owner/co-founder of Cannsult, a consulting firm based in the US and Australia. She discusses her experience in the emerging cannabis industry, her work with many different government agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), her work with public and private healthcare organizations and even some work with […]
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Author Sheilah Paddy O’Brien has released a new book, Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops: The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders. The intent of the book is to be a guide for improvement facilitators of Rapid Process Improvement Workshops (aka kaizen events). She wants to give them a place to go after mastering the mechanics of […]
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In an interview with Mark Graban on the Lean Blog Interview podcast, Tracy O’Rourke discusses her 20 years in consulting, from her time at General Electric learning Six Sigma under Jack Welch, to her work in transactional process, government, nonprofit and education. She shares an example of working with a government agency to help change […]
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An interview with Michael Areola, who is a Product Development consultant and Agile Coach at Cenmic Management in Katy, Texas (near Houston). He uses Agile processes and frameworks to streamline development processes, increase team efficiency, drive collaboration and reduce wasted time. He worked in large organizations like SAP and Bank of America, as well as government agencies […]
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The State of Nebraska identified the need to improve the process for people setting up a new business, so they launched a Six Sigma Black Belt project. Phase 1 of the project was setting up the code for the website to have all the links and functionality Phase 2 of their implementation has already lead […]
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The Nebraska Department of Transportation (DOT) Process Improvement recently shared a short video at their annual Project Managers conference on the success we have had with 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain), especially in our District 2, South 108th St. Yard in Omaha. Overall, they’ve had pretty good success with the 5S program […]
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