Free NCCI Coffee Break March 22

Cultivating Leaders Committed to Change and Innovation

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Carruthers Hall Conference Room E Conference Room A

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Presenters: Kathleen Scott, Director of Organizational Excellence and
Administrative Operations and Thomas Gaffery,
Manager of Special Projects and Parking, both of California State University, Fresno

Summary:

Fresno State has been implementing successful lean projects
across administrative and academic units for nearly a decade. Our challenge was
to move from individual projects to a sustainable culture of innovation and
improvement. In Fall 2014, we launched a pilot program, "Creativity and
Innovation for Effectiveness" (CAIFE). 
CAIFE was designed to engage faculty, staff and administrators in the
process of institutional transformation in order to build institutional
capacity and harness and embrace a lasting culture of innovation and
creativity. The program blends individual development with focused efforts to
enhance organizational effectiveness. The pilot included three distinct phases:

1. Bold Idea Challenge - an all campus call from the President for ideas to
   improve services to students, teaching or learning innovations or ways to fix
   an inefficient process.


2. Implementation of ideas coupled with Professional Development focused on
   innovation, process improvement and change management.


3. Showcase of
   Excellence. We will share lessons learned from the CAIFE pilot and where we are
   going from here.

What you will learn:

• Understand
  how an institution can evolve from individual lean projects to an overall
  campus-wide program


• How to
  build a culture of innovation and excellence


• Learn
  how lean business process improvement and change management are linked and how
  they can both benefit each other


• Develop
  an action list for steps to create a nomination based process improvement
  program

Registration instructions:

UVA is a member of NCCI, so you may register using UVA. On the registration page, click Event Registration (top of page). Enter email address and follow
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