Jacksonville and Duval County (Florida) is working to make veteran homelessness rare and brief. At the heart of this movement is the insight that communities can’t fix what they can’t see. Community Solutions teamed up with the Tableau Foundation and Built for Zero communities to gather and analyze real-time homelessness data. This takes the anonymity […]
Every year, Denver Parks and Recreation (DPR) hires approximately 1,500 staff to support. The DPR Talent Acquisition Team (DPR TA Team) is tasked with supporting DPR in the recruiting and hiring. To better address the high-volume hiring needs and ensure a successful overhaul to the DPR recruiting and hiring process, the team broke their effort […]
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Bella Englebach is a consultant with Lean for Humans, Inc, and in this article, she asks about the moral and ethical implications of the work we do as we confront systemic racism? Examples include: What do you say if there is diversity in those allowed to attend training classes? What if the client wants you to […]
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Joy Mason is a Six Sigma Black Belt who spent many years at Eli Lilly in continuous improvement before taking on a consulting career. She introduces the idea of CARE, and more clearly defines the following words: inclusion, diversity, racism, equity and discrimination. She explains how Six Sigma and the DMAIC model can be used […]
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Sabrina Malter is a Kata coach at a major pharmaceutical company in Germany. Kata is a pattern you practice to learn a skill and mindset until it becomes second nature. She facilitated a conversation with people from Germany and Switzerland. They structured the conversation around the following questions: What’s our target condition for an inclusive and […]
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The following webinar was hosted by the IISE Sustainable Development Division, as part of their mission to help align Industrial and Systems Engineers with organizations working on the UN Sustainable Development goals. In addition to covering details of the project, here are some key takeaways. Student capstone projects and research work provide excellent real-world experience […]
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With the recent events happening in the US with racial inequality, but things aren’t much better in Brazil. 55% of the population is non-white (“black” or “mixed-race”). Despite this, an overwhelmingly homogeneous white male majority exists in most organizations. Structural racism is a reality in Brazil and it is everyone’s responsibility to join forces with […]
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Christopher Chapman, Senior Lean Transformation Coach, calls on lean thinkers to leverage our skills to eradicate the waste of racism in our businesses, worker lives, their families, their community and society. Lean thinkers: We have plenty of experience using humble inquiry and other problem-solving tools to root-out non-valued-activities in our organizations. Now we need to […]
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by Brion Hurley While reading the book, Above the Law by Matthew Whitaker, I learned about the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program that has been deployed in many neighborhoods in the United States to reduce gun violence. “[PSN] is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and […]
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by Brion Hurley In June 2020, former University of Iowa football players raised concerns about the mistreatment of Black players in the program. As a former player at Iowa, this news impacted me personally, and I’ve been following this story since it first came out. Just to be clear, I am white, and was born […]
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