Contact: Liz Menzer
Phone: (608) 663-5300
Email: menzer@wisquality.org
Can government of all sizes take lessons from industry to get faster, more efficient, stronger, and do more better? The answer is absolutely YES. Governments across Wisconsin are wondering how they will maintain high quality services and one solution is to find more efficient ways to deliver those services by getting Lean.
On October 10th more than 300 state and local government leaders are expected to attend the Lean Government Conference in Madison at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The day long event is being hosted by the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Local Government Institute of Wisconsin.
Conference speakers include national, Midwest, and Wisconsin experts such as keynote speaker Graham Richard, former Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana where lean processes saved taxpayers over $31 million while improving services. Mike Rohlf, Iowa Office of Lean Enterprise, will conduct a Lean Bootcamp session and Teresa Hay McMahon, Iowa Lean Consortium will talk about lean leadership and creating a lean culture.
To learn more or to register, see http://www.wisquality.org/1925-2
The Conference will cover basic principles and tools for improving quality, cost effectiveness, service delivery, and responsiveness; as well as the long-term goal of transforming your government to a adopt a sustainable lean culture. Poster exhibits are also welcome to showcase lean efforts in Wisconsin. Foth Engineering and the UW Stout Center for Operational Excellence are early sponsors of the conference and will also share their expertise in conference workshops.
What is lean and why now? Simply stated, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. Lean thinking changes the focus from optimizing separate efforts to optimizing the flow of products and services to customers. Examples include improving efficiency by decreasing process time and backlog, producing a product or service that is customer-friendly, improving the speed of processes by eliminating unneeded and complex steps.
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If you would like more information, contact Liz Menzer at the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence at (608) 663-5300 or info@wisquality.org; or Gary Becker at the Local Government Institute for Wisconsin at (608) 821-3941 exec_dir@localgovinstitute.org
