Streamlining Processes and Eliminating Waste with the State of Nebraska

The State of Nebraska has invested in training almost 13,000 members of their team in Lean Six Sigma methodology, which allowed them to achieve amazing process improvement results such as:

  • The Developmental Disabilities Division was able to cut down their meeting prep time from 65 hours to 10 hours
  • The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) started to allow permits to be renewed online which saves an estimated 4,700 hours of processing time a year.
  • The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) reduced inmates travel for out-of-facility medical appointments by almost 50 percent and reduced staff overtime used to fulfill those requests by an estimated 42,000 hours a year.

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