Date of Lean workshop:
July 26th, 27th and 28th, 2010

Problem Statement / Background:
Current administrative structures in Humanities have been reduced due to budget pressures while tasks have increased. Transactional activities are performed by generalists, who may perform certain transactions only occasionally, which can compromise compliance, accuracy and speed. 
 
Goals / Objectives
Reduce labor and increase accuracy, timeliness, and audit compliance of transactional activities to release time to support research, instruction, and administrative oversight
 
 
Metrics / Measures:
Labor time spent on transactional activities
Accuracy, timeliness and audit compliance of transactional activities
 
 
Team Documents:
·         Event Kaizen Scope Document
·         Workshop Report Out 
 
Visual Board Locations:
Communications Building – Dean’s office lobby

Please direct any questions to
Project Co –Lead(s)
Karen Long and Mary Jane Mackay, (Financial Management)
David Miles, Arts & Sciences (French & Ital, Span & Portuguese)
 
Team Members:
Pramilla Chand -Procurement Services,   Crista Woodhull – Payroll, Heidi Tilghman – Germanics,   Amy Pelloff – CHID, Zhenya Lavy -Simpson Center for Humanities, Michael Furr –Linguistics, Lynn Perry - Human Resources