Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Hip! Hip! Hooray for Iowa!

IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES IOWA PARTNERS IN EFFICIENCY AWARD

DES MOINES, IOWA – (July 1, 2009) The Iowa Business Council (IBC), during its 23rd Annual Partnership Meeting held in Des Moines on January 26, 2009, formally recognized the 100th Lean Enterprise event conducted within State government. Teresa Hay McMahon, Administrator of the Performance Results Division of the Iowa Department of Management and Chair of the Lean Government Collaborative, received a formal acknowledgement from IBC for this accomplishment.

At that time IBC also announced the creation of the “Iowa Partners In Efficiency Award,” to be presented for the first time in January 2010. This annual honor will recognize the employees or work units in any political subdivision of local, county, or state government that, through the use of Lean tools and techniques, significantly and measurably increase productivity and promote innovation resulting in the improvement of delivery of public services to the benefit of the citizens of Iowa and the private sector...

Read the rest of the story at http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=163348

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