Lean Non-For-Profit

The non-for-profit sector is experiencing similar but somewhat different challenges than other businesses. Their staff is expected to do more with less resources and technology while having to improve overall quality of their services. The cost of doing business is increasing while their revenues and available Government programs are decreasing.

We applied lean six sigma to a non-for-profit organization that manages group homes and several other community related support services. Our approach was to teach some of the basic Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and tools and challenge the teams to choose improvement projects in their own areas of responsibility. The teams made significant measurable improvements in cost reduction, improved process turn around time, simplifying processes and forms, reduced turnover and improved customer and consumer satisfaction.

Examples of Improvements

A Value Stream Map of a non-for-profit office process
Reduced number of process steps by 55%
Improved process turn around time from 8 hours to 3 minutes

Office supplies for non-for-profit
Implemented 5S and Kaban with vendor managed inventory
Savings of $54,600 per year

LEAN Engineering provides a wide variety of services. Included among these services are training, on-site facilitation, consulting and ongoing support to ensure the transfer of knowledge and experience to the organization and create a self sustaining culture of continuous improvement with lasting results.