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 […]
The Denver Public Library saved $184,280 in soft costs through three innovations. The largest of the three was the DePop process (new popular books were labeled “Pop”. When these books went into regular circulation, the labels were removed in a process called DePopping). Their old process had only 67% of new items being DePopped correctly, […]
At Denver International Airport, so much of the work required to keep things running smoothly is done well away from the public eye. Some of the employees hard work finally got some of the attention it deserves at the Continuing Peak Education Innovation Fair. One employee-led team worked to drastically improve response time for service […]
For many years, Animal Protection Officers have developed a reputation as dog catchers. Thanks to children’s movies and folklore, residents view Animal Protection Officers with skepticism, perceiving their sole mission to be confiscating dogs and ticketing owners. The Denver Animal Shelter was on a mission to changing that perception and foster more positive interactions with […]
When Denver Green Belt Sophia Hassman became a tax audit supervisor two years ago, she took over the training of new staff tax auditors. Because of increased hires the audit unit needed to change and structure the process for a group format and define everything so nothing was forgotten. She created a manual with direct links […]
“Lean Startup is about creating a new institution in extreme conditions of chaos and uncertainty,” Rocio Perez Ochoa, who presented on her work with women’s groups in Western Kenya at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco, California, told Devex. “Anything you want to do in a new market is by definition a startup. And […]
Professionals from Baker Victory Services (BVS), Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled (CSDD) in Buffalo and People Inc. in Williamsville are taking a fresh look at service delivery through a different lens: the Lean methodology of decreasing waste. Read more at: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2016/01/003.html
When Jorge Perez noticed project management efforts were often haphazard and unfocused at the YMCA of the USA, he decided to complete a Green Belt-level training course, and wanted to introduce Six Sigma to the youth development department. The goal was to introduce a new method for managing and tracking projects into the organization. He […]
Only 40 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in the US are in medical care and only 37 percent are receiving antiretroviral therapy. To limit future transmissions of HIV, high levels of HIV testing and viral suppression are imperative. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have made it a priority for states to help more […]
The Beijing Aquarium is home to a pod of rare beluga whales. High turbidity in the beluga tanks– a quality linked to animal activity – means low visibility. And low visibility means aquarium visitors won’t be able to see the belugas. Moreover, maintaining constant high-visibility conditions is expensive and requires high energy consumption. A series […]