2/4/2008- Best Practices: workplacelean
In our competitive world, all organizations are working to stay viable.   Smart organizations are using Lean to drive out the wastes that are inherent in all our systems and processes. 
Ask yourself how much time is lost…
·        searching, deciphering, correcting, or waiting for information? 

1/30/2008-

1. Initiated by the bookstore lean project, the Bookstores and Student Accounts have collaborated to improve the student book voucher process.  Results of their efforts include:
   1. Students no longer having to visit business office to pickup vouchers
   2. Voucher information now issued electronically at Ankeny campus and made accessible to all campuses
   3. Elimination of approximately ...
      
      
      
      
      
      

1/30/2008- Workforce Solutions
Assistance from Community Colleges of Iowa

Orange Tree Employment Screening, headquartered in Minneapolis, has become an industry leader in innovative employment screening by providing highly-customized service to companies who need more than a hollow background check. The company focuses its their innovations on their clients' most critical aspects ...

1/30/2008- NICC Economic Workforce
D e v e l o p m en t
Winter 2008
Incentive
DB&T / Heartland Financial USApartner
with NICC for workplacelean® training
Northeast Iowa Community College’s training programs for area businesses cover more than manufacturing operations and industrial technology. One
program, named workplacelean®, is designed ...

1/30/2008-
FEATHERLITE MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCES THE POWER OF A-3!
 
            Featherlite Manufacturing of Cresco recently completed training sponsored by NICC on the A-3 Problem Solving tool. The A-3 is a powerful  yet simple problem solving tool developed by Toyota and taught to all their employees.
The term "A3" ...

1/30/2008-

Going "LEAN" in HR Services by Erin Rosacker Concerns about the time it takes to fill a position at Iowa State prompted Human Resource Services to bring in Workplace Lean, a business consultant resource offered by Des Moines Area Community College, to help examine Iowa ...