Community of Practice
Our purpose
Results Washington recently established the Enterprise-wide Lean and Continuous Improvement Community of Practice in alignment with Governor Inslee’s executive order 13-04 as a platform for continuous improvement (CI) practitioners to:
- Share knowledge, experience and expertise to help others
- Obtain continuous improvement strategies and resources
- Receive support on any CI efforts their organization or agency is or may be implementing
- Continue fostering a CI culture throughout the state that helps us reduce inefficiencies and produce quality products and services for all citizens
Join the Community!
The Community meets every third Tuesday of the month at 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. These meetings are optional and open to all who would like to attend. To join the distribution list, click the button below!
What to expect
At our Community meetings, we hope that you can:
- Expand or refresh your knowledge and skillset on various topics and methodologies through topic teachings
- Learn from real implementations and experiences through project shares
- Collaborate with others across the state as well as partnering states!
- Have fun!
Are you interested
in sharing your knowledge and expertise at our upcoming Community of Practice (CoP) session? We'd love to hear from you! Please fill out this form to provide more details about your presentation topic and what you'd like to contribute to our community. We look forward to learning from your insights!
Schedule
2025
Date |
Topic Teaching & Presenter |
Project Share & Presenter |
| January 21, 2025 |
Beyond Resolutions: The Science of Building Lasting Habits |
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| February 18, 2025 |
Lighting Up Insights: The Power of Heat Maps in Process Data Visualization |
LEAN Approach to Improved Access to Care and Improved Quality of Care |
| March 18, 2025 |
Arizona Management System: Influencing Culture |
PowerPoint Perfection |
| April 15, 2025 | DSDM (Dynamic System Development Methodology) and the Lake Burien Transitional Care Facility project Sumeda Madhuri | DSHS DDA |
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| May 20, 2025 |
Exploring the people side of Lean and Continuous Improvement |
Hoshin Kanri |
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June 17, 2025 |
VSM Refresher |
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Past Years Schedule and Presentations
Community of Practice
Workshops
2024
Agency Success Stories
State agencies are expected to embed Lean and continuous improvement strategies to deliver effective, efficient, and improved customer services and program outcomes. Through these strategies, many agencies have had great successes with innovative ideas, and we would like you to share those successes with us! These success stories will replace the cabinet agencies' previous annual Lean project reporting expectations.
We plan to publish information from the success stories for Lean and continuous improvement/Community of Practice learning opportunities, the governor's Lean conference speech and talking points for the monthly performance reviews, and other public communications along with the annual report.
To submit a success story on behalf of your agency, click the button below!
