Due to an increased number of incident reports being submitted over a 6 month period at Cape Cod Child Development, Lesley Guertin and her team of problem-solvers set out to identify the root causes of the issue and improve the process. Goal Statement: To decrease the number of incident reports from 30 to 15 a month […]
Kristin Kielich, a Senior Strategic Initiatives Analyst at UC San Diego, and her team of problem solvers, set out to make the hiring process faster and easier for every party involved. Their goal was to streamline and clarify the process to increase the completion of the on boarding form to 100% and ensure 100% of new […]
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Cape Cod Child Development in Cape Cod, MA is a trailblazer in applying Lean Six Sigma to the nonprofit world. Grants are being completed 90 percent of the time within 24 hours of the due date, giving the grant writer minimal time to review. This impacts the efficiencies within the process which could potentially result in […]
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The Recreation & Parks Department’s Structural Maintenance Yard (SMY) is in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The SMY had accumulated many unwanted and outdated items that clutter the valuable storage and working spaces, including broken equipment, unused supplies, and scrap materials. The project team used “fishbone” diagrams and spaghetti maps to analyze the root causes […]
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Due to the rapid growth of their organization, Lynne and her process improvement team sought to increase the work done in the amount of another person without being to be able to hire for said person. After initial research, Emmons found: The team was currently doing about 283 different deliverables – ranging from audits, licensing, meeting, […]
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Angie Grabiec of Cape Cod Child Development applied Lean Six Sigma in the nonprofit world of Childcare. She wanted to change the supply purchasing process to provide outstanding products with less cost which will improve revenue and the facilities for children and families. An Implementation Plan was used to streamline supply orders. Other Lean Six Sigma […]
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Cape Cod Child Development is a trailblazer in applying Lean Six Sigma to the nonprofit world. Lisa Donovan, Director of Family Advocacy is helping to increase services available to the homeless population. The goal of the project was to increase the homeless families receiving benefits at Cape Cod Child Development. Some Lean Six Sigma tools […]
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The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (JFS) had internal customers request delivery or pick-up of state record boxes. Emergency situations such as requests for files for litigation or audits cause the delivery schedule to go awry. Employees frequently work past their scheduled work day, or run out of time to complete deliveries. They […]
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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 […]
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