Teresa Dickey and her team saved hundreds of work hours and $400,000 in soft savings after using DMAIC to identify and eliminate waste in a process in this Lean Six Sigma Success Story. The Challenge Kern County, California had a juvenile probation violation problem. The problem wasn’t the kids—it was…
The Challenge The Keefe Group, the nation’s largest supplier of consumer goods to the correctional market, embarked on their lean journey in 2018. Their C.O.O. was a big supporter of Lean Six Sigma and wanted to begin training Keefe employees in the methodology. He was a former General Electric Six…
Find out how Abigail Calderon and Jennifer Storm from LA County streamlined IT tickets by eliminating unnecessary signatures and process steps by checking out our latest success story. Government Agencies are using Lean Six Sigma to improve processes. The outcome? Better service to internal and external customers. Abigail Calderon is…
Tehseen Lazzouni is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Financial Analyst in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at UC San Diego, one of the world's leading public research universities. Through DMAIC, Tehseen was able to identify and remove redundancies, streamline her process, and reduce interruptions to the process –…
It's no secret that process improvement has played a crucial role in serving the military for decades, but this recent process improvement success might be one of the most surprising of them all. Out of fourty-four project nominees, the Process Support Division Black Belt Team at Letterkenny Army Depot recently…
GoLeanSixSigma.com Green Belt George Wong's Project Storyboard involved a cycle time reduction process dealing with purchase order creation. The goal was to reduce the time to create and deliver a purchase order to a supplier from 3 days to 2 days, while also reducing the time to enter quotation information…
Washington State Department of Transportation is on a journey - a "10-hour" journey! Watch this 30 minute success story to find out how Anna Fisher and her team reduced lead time for fuel reconciliation from 10 hours to 30 minutes. With a staff of 6,800 and 70 Lean Practitioners, they've…
Government has its own set of challenges with quickly applying process improvement and seeing improvement results. This 15 minute video shows how a government section used a Process Walk as an approach to understand the process. The process walk was facilitated by Tracy O'Rourke to create a safe environment promoting…