Project Summary The Challenge: UC San Diego students’ accounts were being sent to collections before they ever received Final Notice Letters—leaving them no time to react. The Discovery: The time it took the Student Business Services Department to produce, stuff and mail Final Notice Letters varied greatly, with a median…
UCSD Medical Center has a little angel in process improvement! Find out how Lily Angelocci (Angelocci = "little angel" in Italian) helped save $4 million dollars for UCSD, which will help this nonprofit fund more programs for students and make a difference in healthcare. The Challenge In 2016 the New…
UC San Diego is implementing Lean Six Sigma. Find out how this project team reduced waste on training preparation time for their internally delivered Yellow Belt training course. UC San Diego is implementing Lean Six Sigma on Lean Six Sigma! Matt Helton is a Strategic Initiatives Analyst for the Office…
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 –…
In a recent GoLeanSixSigma Success Story, UC San Diego's very own Lily Angelocci shares how she helped save $4 million dollars that will provide more funding towards more programs for students and make a difference in healthcare. With improvement processes ranging from eliminating wasted steps in the manual verification process…
On November 8th, UC San Diego recently conducted its first-ever Process Palooza, a day-long conference and competition focused on continuous improvement through Lean Six Sigma techniques. The goal of the event was to strengthen the community of Lean Six Sigma peers, at UC San Diego as well as encourage more…
On June 23, UC San Diego will be hosting a one-day Lean Six Sigma workshop to learn from Process Improvement leaders at Watkins Manufacturing and Sharp. During this workshop, participants will be able to learn best practices in areas such as leveraging technology, rolling out effective systems/processes and supporting business…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma success stories and news from around the web for the week of July 4, 2016. St. Lawrence County Health Initiative Team Up To Hasten Times For MRI Results The Clarkson University School of Business and the Health Initiative of St. Lawrence…