Launch Kern Goals For Year 2

$ Savings

$8 million in savings by 9/30/19

Staff

1100 employees trained through the Introduction workshops by 9/30/19

Time Savings

37,000 hours of staff time saved and re-directed by 9/30/19

Projects

Every County department completing at least one successful project by 2/1/19

Green Belts

15 additional Green Belts trained by Spring 2019

Avoiding unnecessary costs and saving taxpayer dollars is a lead priority for the Launch Kern initiative:

39 projects across 16 County departments

$3,711,737 in savings through process improvements.

The number of employee hours redirected from a wasteful process to mission critical tasks amounts to 7,505 hours.

GREEN BELTS

  • Amanda
    Amanda
  • Brittany
    Brittany
  • Carl
    Carl
  • Veronica
    Veronica
  • Walter
    Walter
  • Dan
    Dan
  • Teresa
    Teresa
  • Kelly
    Kelly
  • Arash
    Arash

Click Here to read about what our green belts are working on!

After providing Introductory / Leadership Workshops to 200 Kern County leaders over the summer of 2017, Kern County kicked off workshops open to all employees in October of 2017. Since that time, the methods and tools of Lean Six Sigma have been used across all departments and functional areas to make Kern County government Faster, Better and Stronger. Below is a summary of key benchmarks for the Launch Kern deployment.