The Finance Department for Outagamie County in Appleton, Wisconsin, chose to examine how they dispose of surplus property for their LEAN project. Value stream mapping was used to visualize the length of each process and how much staff time was involved. After that, some of these implements were made: The Surplus Items listing on the intranet was […]
Outagamie County in Wisconsin has various processes maintained by various departments to collect information on the vehicle fleet, like titles, insurance coverage and annual vehicle reports. The county wanted to review these processes to determine if the county is accounting for and reporting out this information in accurately and efficiently. The group Value Stream mapped […]
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In 2011, Dr. Pat Greco began as the superintendent of the Menomonee Falls School District in Wisconsin. She faced no shortage of problems: a suspension rate seven times higher than the state average, performance gaps across income and race, cost overruns, and a failure to meet performance goals defined under the No Child Left Behind Act among others. […]
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Jason Schulist is the President of the Generative Local Community Institute (GLCI). In this webinar, he describes lean methods and approaches that can be used to address the thorniest community problems. He also discusses the concept of the Value Stream of Humanity, continuous improvement, adaptive problem solving, community problem solving, generativity, lean, and project management. […]
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Jason Schulist is President of Generative Local Community Institute (GLCI), an organization that connects communities so they can better address social issues like homelessness. Jason shared how continuous improvement factors into this important line of work. In this podcast you’ll learn: The quote that inspires Jason Jason’s background, specifically in social change About value streams […]
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An interview with Kamaljit Jackson, Senior Accountability and Efficiency Officer at Racine Unified School District in Wisconsin. In the district, she helped coordinate kaizen events to improve the student registration processes in conjunction with regulatory requirements. They came up with a one-stop-shop approach to sign-up, which cut out time and hassle for parents, and reduced waste […]
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Poverty Outcomes Improvement Network Team (POINT) is a first-time, regional driven, initiative focusing on introducing continuous improvement methodology to nonprofits so that they can learn the tools and apply them to their systems and processes in order to accelerate change, improve outcomes and ultimately reduce poverty in Northeast Wisconsin. It was an 18-month initiative, funded […]
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Planners from the City of Madison, Wis., and the Sonoma County (Calif.) Transportation Authority discuss how new planning software solutions developed by UrbanFootprint are helping them better support their communities. Cities are struggling with no shortage of challenges: climate change, resilience planning, transportation gridlock, pollution, lack of resources, affordability gaps, health risks, and social instability […]
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The Poverty Outcomes and Improvement Network Team (POINT) initiative has provided a results-oriented project showing that quality improvement methods are relevant to the work of nonprofits. The nonprofits involved in the project used quality improvement methods to understand and improve their processes, enabling them to help more people find good paying jobs, housing, and other […]
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Racine Unified School District is working to continuously improve its practices by using the Lean Six Sigma method. The district began using Lean Six Sigma in February 2017. Its School Board members recently underwent training to better understand the method. “From our perspective, you can remove Lean Six Sigma from the title and say we […]
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