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Welcome to Colorado’s Innovation Conference 2024!

We Strive for Excellence!

The Colorado Innovation Conference will provide you tools, resources and knowledge that will support YOU in making successful and sustainable changes that will save time, reduce cost and improve safety in the following areas:

  • Process Improvement and Innovation
  • Change Management
  • Project Management and Implementation
  • Strategy Development and Deployment
  • Greening Government
  • Digital Transformation
  • Enhancing Customer Experience and Service

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Welcome to Colorado’s Innovation Conference 2024!

We Want to Hear from YOU!

After the this session please be sure to fill out the feedback form so that we all can continuously improve upon our processes and facilitation of content. A link will be provided at the end.

BE AN INNOVATION CHAMPION!

After the conference, we will be reaching out to you to find out more about YOUR improvements and innovations. Five lucky innovators will receive a special award! So, be sure to stay tuned and tell us about how YOU have improved your work in your agency!

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Innovation as a� Force Multiplier

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Innovation as a Force Multiplier

Kate McGovern, MPA, Ph.D.

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Agenda

  • A Story
  • Model CI programs
  • A SWOT
  • Countermeasures
  • Opportunities
  • All in for Innovation as a Force Multiplier

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Why do we do it this way?

“Because that’s the way it’s always been done…”

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6% to 86% of appeals processed in 30 days

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Lean as a Public Service Trifecta

  • Improve quality for customers

  • Boost employee morale

  • Enhance capacity for mission

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Three Levels of Maturity in Government�

  1. Reaction Driven

  • Results Driven

  • Social Good Driven

Source: John M. Bernard

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Lean Management: Top-down and Bottom-up

Leaders articulate the mission and the priorities

Responsibility and authority

where work is taking place - the Gemba

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A Model for Continuous Improvement

Leaders

Set goals, provide resources

All employees

Lean training

Managers Sponsor projects

Lean Practitioners

Facilitate, Mentor, Communicate

All employees

Apply tools & concepts for daily use

Culture of continuous improvement

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Center for Operational Excellence (COE)

  • Embedded in the Dept. of Administration
  • Provides training
    • CI 101 for all
    • Programs for managers
    • CI practitioners
  • Coordinates the community of practice
    • Mentorship, interns
    • Continuing ed
    • Networking events

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Operational Alignment

The Governor

    • Sets priorities
    • Requires each agency to appoint a CI coordinator

COE Director

    • Chair the team of CI agency coordinators
    • Identify cross-agency projects
    • Track deliverables toward goals

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SWOT Lean

Strengths

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

It works.

  • Improves customer service
  • Boosts morale
  • Enhances capacity for mission

It can wither away.

  • Practitioners are lost by attrition.
  • Managers set other priorities.

  • It can improve operations across agency silos.
  • It can generate a culture of continuous improvement.
  • It can facilitate to Level 2 to 3 maturity in government.

  • It never grows past the project level.
  • It is co-opted into a cost-cutting mechanism.
  • It is discontinued by the next governor.

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Strength: Morale Weakness: Attrition

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Strength: Morale Weakness: Attrition

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Countermeasure: Awareness in government

NH Lean Program 2009-2016

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Countermeasure: A statewide Executive Team

Joe McCue, NHDOT

Chair of NH’s Lean Executive Committee

Lean New Hampshire

Continuous Improvement

Lean Executive Committee 2017

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Post conference Action #1

SWOT your agency’s CI program

  • How will you:
    • Build on the strengths and opportunities
    • Minimize the weaknesses
    • Develop countermeasures to the threats

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CI and�Gubernatorial Transition

Colorado’s SMART Act

  • Use CI
  • Train employees
  • Report progress on goals

Former Governor John Hickenlooper

Governor Jared Polis

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Opportunity: Colorado as a national model

“Here in Colorado, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront

of innovation and collaboration…”

Governor Polis is Chair of the National Governors Association

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“We’re doing Lean because we like it. �No one asked us to do it. �That doesn’t happen in private industry.”

Deputy Banking Commissioner and

Lean Black Belt Professor Michael Moranti

Opportunity: Lean Wherever You Are

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CDOT Innovations, Improvement & Engagement Hub

How to borrow this idea…

Opportunity: Recognize and Replicate

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Is variation in CI practice paradoxical?

Variation is the enemy of quality.

W. Edwards Deming

Without standards there can be no kaizen.

- Taiichi Ohno

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Plan-Do-Check-Act

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Post-conference action #2

Build a sustainable community of practice throughout state government

    • Innovate
    • Experiment
    • Standardize
    • Improve
    • Borrow
    • Repeat

Innovation as a Force Multiplier