The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) had increasing volumes of records to manage and the cost to store the agency’s records and documents had soared to intolerable levels. Maintaining records at the state’s primary storage and archive facilities meant the way space was utilized had to change, and something had to be done […]
The City of Coral Gables (FL) IT department worked together on response times and efficiencies with a Lean Six Sigma improvement project. The process empowered their team to look inward and outward, identifying opportunities that could make a difference over a short period of time. One initiative was to dedicate assigned IT liaisons to each […]
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COMPSTAT, which is short for COMPare STATistic, was created by Jack Maple in the early ’90s when he was a New York City transit cop. It became the most successful crime-fighting system, helping to reduce crime in New York City (results questioned by others). However, the program slowed transitioned from crime fighting tool to management […]
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The City of El Paso set out to improve their asphalt repair service and reduce their pothole repair time. The way the process for asphalt repairs was being performed was inconsistent, affecting costs and public service. A team used the Lean Six Sigma process to identify important opportunities: Mobilization – make travel time more efficient Data […]
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The National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) are finding efficient and effective ways on a national level to test the quality and safety of China’s food and medical products at various stages of the product life cycle. NIFDC scientists use statistical methods in JMP® to make more scientific, data-driven regulatory decisions to guarantee […]
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A Six Sigma Green Belt project was launched by the Police Department to reduce the number of preventable accidents involving marked police vehicles, which leads to reduced fleet availability, repair expenses, and risk to officers and the general public. The accidents have been stable and not improving between 2013 and 2017. The goal was to […]
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It seems like Six Sigma and profit go hand-in-hand. The methodology was designed around manufacturing, after all. When you hear terms like Lean or Kanban, you probably think of names like Toyota and Motorola (and recently, Amazon). You picture warehouses and forklifts and shelves stacked with products. Or maybe you think of service industries, like […]
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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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It is hard to miss story after story in the media about the fluctuations in the global economy and the financial difficulties facing the federal and many state governments across the United States. Dealing with limited resources, funding for higher education has been diverted to meet other high priority needs. Yet society still expects investments […]
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Dr. Sky Alibhai and Dr. Zoe Jewell, who are running a non-profit conservation organization WildTrack, put their dedication into monitoring and studying endangered animals. They learned quickly from locals how to track footprints of rhinos. This led to the creation of an algorithm of endangered species footprints. Using JMP software allows them to estimate the […]
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