"In my job as a transformation analyst with Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services, I’ve developed a protocol for using XLSim as part of our Lean Six Sigma process improvement work with business units throughout state government. For example, I just finished a project with our Risk Group (our state self-insurance company) and was able to show them how to reduce the median time it takes to process a claim by 30%. On a previous project, we used XLSim to help our Department of Fish & Wildlife decrease the time it takes to get permission to hire from 11 days to just 1! The critical role that XLSim plays is that it allows the process improvement team to play “what-if” in order to discover the highest leverage solutions to their problems without having to resort to the costly real life trial and error. Using XLSim enables process improvement teams to see the likely results of their countermeasures using their own data; it instills confidence that their ideas will actually work; and facilitates implementation and follow up monitoring and control."
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