ISU Extension
Futuring Committee:
Action Plan 11 Implementation Report
Lean Extension
Plan Leader:
Ron Cox
Long-Term
Goal
ISU Extension will
increase program participation of administrative units by 5% each year
for five years through application of lean principles.
Short-Term
Goals
1. Apply
Lean principles to two Extension processes per year for the next three
years.
2. Develop
an ISU Extension Lean Web site that provides Lean educational content
and success stories.
3. Develop
a Lean Extension curriculum using the Lean process as a framework.
4. Develop
a pull-based implementation plan to make lean available to all of Extension.
Action
Steps (Jim Black, Area Directors, Program Directors, and Selected Team
Members)
1.
Complete and document the first pilot project by August 31, 2005.
2.
Create and provide content to an ISU Extension Lean Web page by September
30, 2005.
3.
Develop an implementation plan by December 31, 2005. |

Long-Term
Goal:
Start
date: July 1, 2005
End date: June 30, 2010

Short-Term
Goal 1:
Start
date: July 1, 2005
End date: June 30, 2008

Short-Term
Goal 2:
Start
date: July 1, 2005
End date: Dec. 31, 2005

Short-Term
Goal 3:
Start
date: Jan. 1, 2006
End date: Dec. 31, 2006

Short-Term
Goal 4:
Start
date: July 1, 2005
End date: Dec. 31, 2005

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