In this episode of The Lean Solutions podcast, Patrick Adams interviews Shayne Daughenbaugh on his unique journey into process improvement as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt that lasted 5 years with the State of Nebraska, and his new venture into consulting. He shares his experiences leading successful organizational change within government, focusing on streamlining […]
The Center of Operational Excellence helped the Nebraska Department of Transportation (DOT) reduce the Right of Way Permitting process from 68 steps to 20 steps by eliminating the performance guarantee payment and reimbursement transactions for utilities, saving time, paper, shipping costs and labor. The results led to turnaround time of 2-3 weeks down to 5-10 […]
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The grant approval and funds release process was taking too long, holding up payments to departments (hurting their cash flow), and negatively impacted their confidence in working on future grant projects. After applying Lean and Six Sigma methods to this process, they were able to achieve the following results: Time to pay invoices reduced from […]
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The Nebraska Department of Transportation (DOT) Process Improvement recently shared a short video at their annual Project Managers conference on the success we have had with 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain), especially in our District 2, South 108th St. Yard in Omaha. Overall, they’ve had pretty good success with the 5S program […]
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Governor Pete Ricketts and the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services (DAS) highlighted process improvement successes in Nebraska state government related to the State’s coronavirus response. The Center of Operational Excellence (COE) is a division within DAS and leads an enterprise-wide effort to instill a culture of continuous improvement throughout state government. The COE utilizes Lean […]
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To improve security, changes were required at the Nebraska Crime Commission offices at an initial price of $60.000 USD. Green Belt training improvements were made to the plan to reduce the costs to $4500 USD, saving over $50,00 USD primarily through utilization surplus property instead of buying brand new. Watch the video below, or visit […]
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At the Nebraska State Personnel, the Talent Acquisition Team setup a visual management board to track errors (Quality), filling temp resources time (Delivery), daily application WIP (Inventory) and daily applications reviewed (Productivity), called a QDIP board. The daily review of these metrics helped reduce the number of daily applications from 800 applications down to around […]
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The Maintenance team found opportunities to clean up their storage room at the Eastern Nebraska Veterans Home using 5S workplace organization with assistance from Keith Flaute, Process Improvement Coordinator. They also share a neat story about old items they found, such as a bell, plaque and photograph. Watch the video below, or click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvmAfzER4BI
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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 […]
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Governor Pete Ricketts and the State of Nebraska’s Center of Operational Excellence (COE) highlighted recent examples of how the COE is improving the operations of state agencies. The COE serves as the hub that is working with state agencies to train state teammates on how to improve the operations of government, identify waste, and deliver better […]
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