Oakland University's Office of the Registrar has been recognized with a Model of Efficiency award by University Business magazine for streamlining the grade change process.

Students from the class HRD 304: Lean Principles and Practices in Organizations offered ideas on how to streamline the grade change process at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
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Gene Fliedner, a professor in the School of Business Administration, recently received a Pawley Institute Fellowship, an award designed to help further research on Lean principles. Through the fellowship, Fliedner is working on writing an academic textbook that will expound on the four key components to Lean practices that Fliedner has identified.

Other fellowship recipients include Mark Doman, special instructor, Human Resource Development; Bob Van Til, professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Shannon Flumerfelt, associate professor, Educational Leadership. Full Story...

The Pawlye Lean Institute concluded its Summer Lean Series Tuesday, August 2 with How to Diversify Using Lean. This session, the final in this three-course program, was led by PMC consultants and Lean experts Janie Farner and Ravi Lote.

Participants were given an introductory explanation on why companies should diversify and partook in a n interactive discussion on how to use Lean in this process. Full Story...

The Pawley Lean Institute continued its mission of spreading knowledge about Lean principles through a new presentation entitled Lean for Students.

The program was developed and presented by Amanda Benjamin, site administrator for the Pawley Lean Institute, as an outreach to students in the OU community, given to a group of peer mentors from OU's Center for Multicultural Initiatives. Full Story...

A key tenet of Lean is to focuses on the "customer" and what that customer values. For instructional processes in schools, this means specifically delineating what students value as learning outcomes.

While this may seem like an obvious improvement strategy, that instruction should meet the learning needs and wants of students, it often requires more in-depth consideration for success. For "pull" occurs by design, not by default. Full Story...