Highlight of the 2019 Quarterly Kaizen at DEN

DEN Peak Performance Team hosted a Colorado Lean Network Kaizen event on May 15 with seventy participants from the State of Colorado, Denver Human Services, Denver Water Board, Centura Health, Comcast, NREL and other organizations.

The event focus was on the journey organizations go through from individual innovation to improving your Value Streams. 

This event was a learning and networking opportunity for Continuous Improvement professionals and was a great success for DEN. 

Peak Team members Amy Kuchno, Oxana Trotsenko, Vanessa Fakhreddin and Sue Holt led the participants through the presentations and facilitation of an interactive exercise identifying primary Value Streams for the participants customers.

The event included a continuous improvement marketplace with presenters from the Maintenance Control Center, Fleet, Facilities, Parking & Transportation and Operations.

Senior Vice Presidents Andrea Albo, Greg Hegarty, Jeff Booton along with Manager Rene Franks addressed the attendees representing DEN’s journey and how far we’ve come to develop our skills and capabilities.

The feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly positive and the Peak Performance team appreciated the opportunity to host the event.

Published by Michael J. Shull

Mike began his improvement journey in the late 1990’s using Kanban cards and production boards to reduce waste in the restaurant industry. In 2005 he joined Caterpillar, Inc. where he learned how to integrate process improvement with Six Sigma to increase heavy equipment sales in two Colorado territories. With a passion for education, Mike later began teaching folks how to use these simple principles themselves--first in the private sector (2009), and then later in the public sector (2012). Mike is the Senior Manager of Continuous Improvement at Denver International Airport and he previously served as the executive director for the Colorado Lean Network from 2017 - 2020. Mike loves learning about what drives people to improve processes while teaching them how to think differently. When he is not facilitating process improvements, Mike enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, biking and traveling with his wonderful wife, Melissa.

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