Agency |
Division/ |
Fiscal |
Tools |
Results Achieved |
| Department of Administration | Commissioner's Office | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Standardized and streamlined the Quarterly Operational Review process. Reduced the elapsed time needed to prepare quarterly reports by 55%, reduced the amount of staff required by 50% |
| Real Estate and Construction Services | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved real estate leasing process time by 67 percent. |
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| Fleet and Surplus Services (FSS) | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced time to enroll fleet vehicles in M5 be 69 percent. |
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| Department of Agriculture | Dairy and Food Licensing Division |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service through an 80 percent reduction in the amount of time necessary for reviewing and issuing license documentation to customers. |
| Lab Services Division | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved operations through a 33 percent reduction in elapsed time and a 25 percent reduction in task time for the “short path” lab results reporting, and a 68 percent reduction in elapsed time and task time for “long path” lab results reporting, with potential staff time-savings of 2.2 FTE per year. |
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| Dairy and Food Licensing Division |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the time for an establishment to get a license by 99.8 percent. |
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| Department of Commerce | Consumer and Industry Services | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced average time to process an insurance product file by 65 percent. |
| Department of Corrections | Electronic Health Records | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Identified the current process steps to ensure functionality with a new electronic health record system. |
| Visiting Application |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Standardized visiting application process to identify potential centralized process. Made the process more visitor friendly while maintaining safety and security. |
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| MCF-St. Cloud Offender Movement | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Examined movement process for offenders to enhance security, efficiency and accountability. |
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| Shared Supervision |
2012 | World Cafe | Brainstorming event for units that share supervision of staff with other units or facilities. |
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| Transitional Housing for Offenders | 2012 | World Cafe | Cross-agency event to determine appropriate housing for offenders being released. |
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| Offender Record Keeping | 2011 | World Cafe | Discussion of accurate and standardized offender records to ensure efficiency and comprehensive work between facilities. |
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| MCF-Togo Wilderness Endeavors program | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Increased efficiency in delivering programs, added Saturday programming. |
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| Shakopee Facility | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Used evidence based practices to prioritize and balance offender work assignments and self-development opportunities while maintaining offender programming schedule. |
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| Information Technology |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service processes with FootPrints service ticket system for internal and external staff. |
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| Willow River/Moose Lake facilities | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced and leveled out inmake movement to reduce congestion, reduce staffing costs, and improve safety. |
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| Faribault Facility |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Increased staff productivity, reduced traffic through truck gate, and reduced offender pull-outs and down time. |
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| Stillwater Facility | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved the efficiency of the facility movement schedule resulting in increased facility security, increased offender production hours, and maintained facility programming. |
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| Shakopee Women's Facility | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the amount of staff overtime, refined current overtime monitoring process, and identified potential cost reductions in the future. |
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| Red Wing facility | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved business operations by developing a staff schedule that maximizes staff resources, increases programming time and maintains staff safety. |
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| Togo Facility |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved operations by developing a staff schedule that maximizes programming time, coordinates schedule among units and defines core schedule requirements. |
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| Shakopee Facility | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved operations by streamlining intake and transportation processes, resulting in more effective use of staff and other resources. |
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| Shakopee Facility – Work Release Program |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved operations by streamlining work release processes to maximize the length of eligible offenders’ stay in the program. |
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| Willow River and Moose Lake Facilities |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved internal operations by completing 100 percent of mandatory staff trainings with the fewest scheduling tasks and by reducing instances requiring excessive communication. |
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| Lino Lakes facility |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved service by ensuring that 100 percent of offender releases occur on the correct date through the creation of a one-cycle work flow that eliminates duplication of effort and ensures the appropriate use of staff resources on priority tasks. |
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| Offender Classification |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved service by refining the process that ensures consistent application of the offender classification system. |
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| Faribault Facility |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved service by increasing the number of mandated offenders enrolled in the literacy program; reduce the number of offenders called out from literacy classes and align literacy program schedule with that of other DOC facilities. |
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| Togo Facility |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved operations by developing a staff schedule that maximizes programming time, coordinates schedule among units and defines core schedule requirements. |
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| St. Cloud Correctional Facility | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Simplified staffing schedule by reducing the number of officer start times from 17 to eight in order to balance the needs of both the institution and the staff. |
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| Willow River/Moose Lake Correctional Facility | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Created new staffing and training schedules that more adequately balance training requirements and coverage of officer posts. |
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| Lino Lakes | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved workplace safety. |
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| Crow Wing County | Information Technology | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Reduce the amount of time to process IT purchases by 55% |
| Public Safety | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Reduce the amount of time to provide E911 addressing to new residents by 95% |
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| Department of Education | Workshop Planning Process | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Streamlined the workshop planning and implementation process that will reduce the amount of staff time to develop by 1500 hours per year, and save an estimated $20,000. in printing costs |
| Department of Employment and Economic Development | Trade Adjustment Assistance | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Redesigned financial process in preparation for new statewide financial software. Reduced tasks by 41 percent, waits by 55 percent, handoffs by 71 percent, and total process time by 47 percent. |
| Minneapolis WorkForce Center/Dislocated Worker | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced time for determining eligibility, standardized forms, client folders and process steps for a 77 percent reduction in process time and 29 percent reduction in task time. |
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| Unemployment Insurance Division |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service by creating a standard process for applicants to follow; reduced the amount of time applicants need to access specialized employ-ment services. |
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| Unemployment Insurance Division |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service through a 50 percent reduction in phone inquiry response time. |
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| Unemployment Insurance Division |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service by reducing the amount of time needed to resolve an extended unemployment coverage request to an average of one day from the previous 14-25 days. |
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| Workforce Centers |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved workflow and customer service by redesigning customer service areas, improving signage and improving the allocation of technical resources. |
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| State Services for the Blind | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the elapsed time by 71%, and the task time by 42% to provide an assessment audio technology requirements for clients seeking employment services |
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| Financial Management | 2011 | 2P – Process Preparation | Developed a new process that will allow for the efficient interface between the DEED Workforce 1 work tracking software, and the State’s new financial tracking system, SWIFT |
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| Workforce Development/Trade Adjustment Assistance | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Developed a standard process for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) requests and will create TAA program policies for consistent and accurate responses. The new process reduces total process time by 53 percent and task time by 70 percent. |
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| Unemployment Insurance & Workforce Development |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Established standard process for referrals from Re-employment & Eligibility Assessment (REA) to Re-employment & Eligibility Services (RES). |
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| Minnesota Investment Fund | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced process time for disbursing community development grants by 93 percent. |
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| Department of Health | Vital Record Unit | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Standardized birth and death certificate application process, reduce tasks by 40 percent, waits by 79 percent, handoffs by 50 percent, and total process time by 96 percent. |
| User Support Services | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Standardized video conference scheduling tools and processes to meet increasing demand, save time and maintain high quality of work for a 22 percent reduction in tasks and 25 percent reduction in handoffs. |
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Commissioner's Office | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Created a standardized emergency communication response process to be utilized within the agency and with partner agencies/stakeholders. |
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Licensing and Certification Division | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the elapsed time to schedule and capture nursing home surveys by 34% and save approximately 3 FTEs of staff time. |
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Commissioner's Office | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Utilize a standard electronic system to process and track inquiries and empower key staff to make response decisions. The new process will lead to savings in paper, supplies and staff time and be 67 percent faster than the old process. |
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Licensed Home Care | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced time for home care license pre and post survey process by 62 percent. |
| Department of Human Services | Appeals - DSD |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Reduce the elapsed time to process appeal requests by 59%, reduce staff needed to handle appeals by 40%, create budget savings from reducing time for continuation of benefits |
| Social Service Information System Training Unit |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Standardized, and simplified the development and posting of training materials on the training website |
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| State Operated Services |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Triaged and streamlined the incident reporting process at DHS operated facilities. Should result in staff time savings of 24, 000 hours per year when fully implemented |
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| PQMI Data Analysis Unit |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Triaged and streamlined the incident reporting process at DHS operated facilities. Should result in staff time savings of 24, 000 hours per year when fully implemented |
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| Contracts Division |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved business operations by reducing the elapsed time for processing a professional/technical contract by 40 percent and reducing the amount of staff time necessary for processing a contract by 30 percent. |
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| TSS Testing | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Documented the testing process, eliminated unnecessary duplication and testing, and detected quality issues earlier in the process while mainting high quality standards. Reduced process time by 46 percent and wait time by 50 percent. |
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| Central Imaging Unit | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved business operations and availability of information through a 58 percent reduction in the time required for preparing and imaging health care enrollment documents. |
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| Medical Assistance Program | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service through a 37 percent reduction in the time needed for determining eligibility on requests for medical assistance (MA) payment of long-term care (LTC), from an average of 87 days to 55 days. |
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| Adoptions Record Unit | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the elapsed time to process a scanned adoption record file by 30%. Reduced the amount of task time required by 3 FTE per year. Will save thousands of dollars in paper and printing costs. |
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| Human Resources | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Developed a consistent hiring process for central office, SOS, and MSOP. The new process will reduce the elapsed time of the bidder fill process by 57 percent and no bidder fill process by 40 percent. |
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| Health Care Administration | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved process time for gathering MMIS estimates by 78.5 percent. |
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| Health Care Administration | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Streamlined the bill analysis and fiscal note processes, created a bill prioritization system, updated forms to match the new process, created standard work and a central repository for all bill analyses and fiscal notes. |
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| Department of Military Affairs | MN Army National Guard | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Reduce the amount of time needed to complete a Loss of Duty Investigation, from a current average of 269 days down to an average of 50-75 days |
| MN Army National Guard | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the time it takes to capture vehicle usage and distribute vehicles by 80 percent. |
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| MN Army National Guard | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced Enlisted Personnel System (EPS) packet process time by 64 percent. |
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| Department of Natural Resources |
Office of Management and Budget |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved internal operations through a 75 percent reduction in the amount of time needed to request and receive legislative authorization, from an average of 12 weeks to an average of three weeks. |
| Forest Planning Unit |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved business operations and resource management through an 80 percent reduction in the amount of time needed to develop and adopt forest management plans, from an average of three years to eight months. |
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| Department of Public Safety | Driver and Vehicle Services |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service through a 70 percent reduction in processing time for expedited title transfers. |
| Human Resources | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced hiring process time by over 50 percent. |
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| Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | 2010 | Process redesign |
Redesigned process for providing customers with permission and connectivity to BCA services. |
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| Department of Revenue | Return Mail Processing Unit | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the amount of re-sent mail by 60 percent, reduce the elapsed time to re-send mail by 75 percent, and reduce costs of re-sending mail estimated at $80,000 per year. |
| Department of Transportation | Historic Bridge Project Development Process |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Streamlined and standardized the process for reviewing, deciding and rehabilitating bridges that qualify for Historic Bridge Development funding |
| Emergency Response Team |
2012 | Kaizen event |
Streamlined and standardized the process for reviewing, deciding and rehabilitating bridges that qualify for Historic Bridge Development funding |
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| Training Unit |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Standardized training announcement process, created announcement template, developed training calendar for a 57 percent reduction in task time, a 33 percent reduction in wait time, and a 38 percent reduction in total time for the training announcement process. |
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| Office of Civil Rights |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved service through an 80 percent reduction in the amount of time needed to review and clear Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contract applications, from an average of 63 days to an average of 12 days. |
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| Materials Management | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved business operations by standardizing the materials acquisition process and reducing the cycle time from an average of 18 days to 15 days for each contract. |
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| Financial Management |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved business information by ensuring that accurate, clear and consis-tent financial data is avail-able to agency managers and leaders as quickly as possible. |
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| IT Development |
2011 | Kaizen event |
Improved service by streamlining the IT development process, reducing lead time by 45 percent and leading to quicker project assessment, improved customer satisfaction and reduced staff time commitment. |
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| Operations Division | 2010 | Kaizen event |
A 68% reduction in elapsed time for vacancies filled by bid and 69% reduction in elapsed time for vacancies filled competitively. The new process also includes a one-stop shop for vacancy related information and enhancements to the Strategic Staffing Plan. |
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| Platting Process | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced time spent devel-oping plats by 36 percent. Elminated handoffs and reduced total wait time by four weeks. |
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| Geometric Design Support Unit |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the time it takes to process design exceptions by 85 percent by estab-lishing response timelines and enhancing training. |
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| EDMS unit | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Reduced the Electronic Document Management System process time by 56 percent. |
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| Department of Veterans Affairs | Hastings Veterans Home |
2011 | Kaizen event/ root cause analysis |
Developed a more efficient morning routine for meeting patient needs at the Hastings facility. |
| State Soldiers Assistance program |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Improved customer service through a 70 percent reduction in task time and a 58 percent reduction in wait time in the process for reviewing and approving financial benefits for qualified veterans seeking assistance. |
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Minneapolis Veterans Homes | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Created standard of work for resident mealtimes and staff break times to make process more resident centered with an emphasis on teamwork and enhanced communication. |
| Minneapolis Veterans Homes | 2010 | Kaizen event |
Created a streamlined admissions process that is easier, faster and more understandable for families, residents and staff. |
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| Hastings Veterans Homes |
2010 | Kaizen event |
Created a more efficient referral and lab process. |
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| Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | Human Resources | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Streamlined the hiring process. Reduce the elapsed time to fill vacant position by 50%. Utilized more electronic filing and storing of data. |
| Metropolitan State University | Student Admissions | 2011 | Kaizen event |
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| Registrar's office | 2010 | Kaizen event |
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| Minneapolis Community and Technical College | Student Guide and Course Catalog | 2012 | Kaizen event |
Restructured guide and catalog into two electronic publications that will be produced in half the time, and be more accurate and targeted to customer needs . |
| Pollution Control Agency | P2 Administrative Billing | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Streamlined P2 mailing, printing, receipting and tracking process, reduced wait time, separation of roles, reduced paper use. |
| Communications Unit | 2011 | Kaizen event |
Developed a streamlined, standard process for making updates to the PCA website. |
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| Surface Waters | 2010 | Kaizen event |
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For additional information on many of these improvements, email a request to the Enterprise Lean Office.