With the rising impact of Oklahoma’s current budget situation, Preston Doerflinger, Secretary of Finance and Revenue for Oklahoma, presents a path towards a solution: implementing the Lean Six Sigma methodology. Doerflinger cites process improvement projects within the Oklahoma Pardon, such as reducing docket preparation time from four weeks to three days, reducing parole processing time by 75%, to an estimated cost savings of $13.4 million in the fiscal year of 2014. Doerflinger certainly provides the evidence in building a case to implement Lean Six Sigma, but for now it lies in the hands of state agency leaders.
