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From Safety Decision to Reunification: Crossing the reunification finish line to regain capacity and help more children and families
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From Safety Decision to Reunification: Crossing the reunification finish line to regain capacity and help more children and families

From Safety Decision to Reunification: Crossing the reunification finish line to regain capacity and help more children and families

Permanency for kids, is one of the most risky and critical decisions made in all of government and getting to the finish line is a laborious process with thousands of factors that will influence the time it takes to get there. But when we are there, our research shows we don't run through the finish line, in fact, our system has a propensity to start walking or even crawling at this phase when in fact, we should be sprinting once a permanency decision has been made.

By Bill Bott|June 2021|Categories: Performance Improvement|Tags: Bill Bott, Capacity, Caseloads, Caseworker, Child Abuse, Child Protection, Child Welfare, Children and Families, Do more good, Government, Human Services, Increase Capacity, Keep Kids Safe, Permanency, Reunification, Safety decision, Thought Leadership, Workflow|

A New Promise for CCWIS: Provide Capacity to Do More Good
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A New Promise for CCWIS: Provide Capacity to Do More Good

A New Promise for CCWIS: Provide Capacity to Do More Good

The new promise of CCWIS is to build systems that support and coach and help caseworkers move the work.

By Sean Toole|August 2020|Categories: Business Process Redesign|Tags: Automation, Backlog, Bottlenecks, BPR, Business Process Redesign, Capacity, Capacity Crisis, Case flow, Caseflow, Caseloads, Caseworker, CCWIS, Child Welfare, Children and Families, Constraint, Dashboard, Data, Flow, Flow of Work, Government, Increase Capacity, Insights, IT, Manager, Managers, Outcomes, Process, Process Management, Sean Toole, Smart process, State, Supervisor, System, Technology, Thought Leadership, Visibility, Workflow|

If Not Humans, Then What’s At the Center?
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If Not Humans, Then What’s At the Center?

If Not Humans, Then What’s At the Center?

188 million results. This is the number of hits you get when you Google “Human-Centered Design.” While obviously very popular, I have to wonder, “just how did we get so far off course that we need to be reminded to keep the humans who use our technology at the core of our design?”

By Bill Bott|June 2020|Categories: Business Process Redesign|Tags: Automation, Bill Bott, BPR, Business Process Redesign, CIO, County, Data, Government, Human-Centered Design, Insights, IT, Modernize, Process, Results, State, System, Technology, Workflow|

What Public Managers Can Learn from the Ventilator Shortage
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What Public Managers Can Learn from the Ventilator Shortage

What Public Managers Can Learn from the Ventilator Shortage

Every work system has its point of constraint, and that's the place to focus on to increase the organization's capacity. You're only as good as your weakest link.