The hiring starts with the HR Contacts in the Colleges and Departments – when they initiate an FTE (Full Time Equivalent) hire by submitting a hiring packet. It can be a complicated process with many steps. Leadership chartered a team to streamline the hiring process and implemented some of the following improvement processes: Simplifying by […]
Leadership at the University of South Carolina chartered a team to streamline the access-granting process, strengthen controls, and improve service and support. Team members used the methods and tools of Lean to map and analyze the current process, uncover inefficiencies, and develop a future-state process that embeds high-impact improvements. The team also built a set of implementation […]
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Employee benefits (everything from insurance to retirement) are one of the most valuable assets offered to new hires, so this is a high-priority process. It’s also an important first impression, because the benefits enrollment process is one of the first big interactions that new employees have with their new employer. The leadership team at the […]
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Maryam Zahabi, an industrial engineer at North Carolina State University, uses JMP® to analyze designed experiments that gauge the effects of on-road signage and in-vehicle technologies on driver attention allocation among both civilian drivers and police officers. Visual stimuli both from inside and outside a vehicle are responsible for hundreds of distracted driving deaths each year. […]
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Sarah Williams, Head of Student Services at Christleton High School in England, shares the work the school is doing to improve the delivery of education to students with special needs using lean thinking. In 2013, the school was told there would be budget cuts and they started to look into opportunities to make the Students […]
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If you thought libraries were going out of style, think again. Turns out, they’re harbingers of innovation. Brian Mathews, Associate Dean at Virginia Tech Libraries, joins Heather McGough of Lean Startup Company to discuss the challenges that universities and libraries face as they move into the digital age. Brian shares how he incorporated Lean Startup […]
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Baerland Primary School wants to become one of Norway’s best schools within spring 2019. Rector Tom Gilje first got the idea of applying lean principles at his school during a discussion with some of his family members who are working with lean in industry. The teachers at Baerland agreed on two main objectives for their […]
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The School of Public Health at Kyoto University has fully adopted JMP® software for lectures and laboratory courses in its Department of Biostatistics. The school aims to train future public health practitioners with varying educational backgrounds in the statistical concepts they will need to execute a research plan in the field. Students use JMP® Pro software in […]
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Ron Pereira and Bryan Glenn, from West Texas A&M, discuss how Lean and Six Sigma are creating incredible value for their university and its employees. He discusses successful projects at WTAMU to reduce time and waste for students, such as paperwork reduction in student housing applications, along with a reduction in voucher printing that saved […]
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Toyota and Babson College’s Social Innovation Lab partnered with The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) to help expedite the distribution of food to those in need.  The partnership aims to enhance productivity, and inventory control practices at GBFB while teaching Babson students a real-world lesson in how Toyota’s manufacturing know-how can enhance the work of nonprofits. Babson faculty have […]
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