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Friday, January 24, 2025

Leena Mahasen joins VPFO as Executive Director, Transformation and Strategy

Leena Mahasen will be joining as an Executive Director, Transformation and Strategy in the VP Finance & Operations on Monday, February 10.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Celebrating Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Lean Green Belt graduates across UBC on May 30, 2024

On May 30, the Project Management Office hosted its biannual ceremony at the Performance Theatre in the AMS Student Nest to celebrate our most recent…
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Monday, April 29, 2024

Project Management Office nominated for a Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Award

The PMO is a finalist for the 2024 Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards (BTOES) in the category of Best Achievement in Cultural Transformation & Sustainability to Deliver…
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Celebrating Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt graduates across UBC on November 30, 2023

On November 30, the Project Management Office hosted its biannual ceremony at the Performance Theatre in the AMS Student Nest to celebrate our most recent…
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Thursday, November 23, 2023

UBCO Celebrates its Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Graduates

On November 21 2023, UBCO celebrated its new Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt graduates. Our Yellow Belt graduates completed a rigorous program to become officially…
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Nikki Reiter and Betty Han join the VPFO Project Management Office as Continuous Improvement Program Manager

Nikki joins the VPFO Project Management Office from the Integrated Renewal Program (IRP) – Student, where she served as Acting Associate Director, Transformation & Change…
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Leveraging Smartsheet for project planning and tracking

VPFO Project Management Office uses Smartsheet, a modern project and work management tool, to manage project plans, track deliverables and report on key project milestones.…
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Thursday, June 22, 2023

Realigning Operational Excellence to Support Key Initiatives for the VPFO and UBC

The VPFO Senior Leadership Team has been working together to review, simplify, and prioritize the projects in our portfolio’s Strategic Plan. To enable key projects…
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Celebrating Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt graduates across UBC on June 1

On June 1, Operational Excellence hosted its biannual ceremony event at The Performance Theatre in The Nest to celebrate our most recent Lean Six Sigma…
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Monday, June 5, 2023

New resource: Project Prioritization and Change Management Matrices

VPFO Project Management Office has created a new template designed to assess and prioritize the delivery of up to three different projects, in alignment with…
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Sunday, May 28, 2023

Keep track with our projects through the Project Portfolio Management Dashboard

The VPFO Project Management team uses a project portfolio management (PPM) tool to help with the intake, prioritization, selection and management of continuous improvement projects…
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Getting ready for UniForum: Support resources for participants available

UBC is getting ready to participate for the fifth time in the UniForum benchmarking program. If you’ve been contacted to act as a Primary Contact or…
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Friday, April 14, 2023

UBC launches fifth year of the UniForum program

This year we are launching year 5 of the program, and from May 29 to June 30 we will be collecting data relating to all…
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Friday, March 17, 2023

Identifying, prioritizing and pursuing improvement opportunities across UBC HR, IT and Finance

In November 2022, we mentioned receiving funding and endorsement from President’s Executive Management Team to deliver operational improvement roadmaps for UBC HR, IT and Finance…
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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

New project kick-off template available in the Project Management Tool Vault

Operational Excellence has created a new template designed to help project managers accelerate their project kick-off and align Steering Committee and project team members towards…
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Monday, March 13, 2023

Welcome Frank Laezza!

Today marks the official start of Frank Laezza’s tenure with UBC as our new Vice-President Finance & Operations. As a strong believer in connected leadership,…
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Friday, March 10, 2023

Finance & HR IRP Benefits Realization Management to cease monthly reporting in April 2023  

Since 2020, Integrated Renewal Program's Benefits Realization Management (IRP BRM) has been providing visibility into UBC's journey towards achieving the benefits of implementing Workday HR…
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Reducing benefit-related support request volume through Lean Six Sigma

Liam Murphy is a Knowledge and Training Analyst with UBC's Integrated Service Centre (ISC). Applying his knowledge of Lean Six Sigma, Liam implemented updates to…
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Continuing to measure your Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt project

Now that you have submitted your Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt report for your certification, you are encouraged to monitor the results that you have…
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Monday, December 12, 2022

Celebrating Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt Graduates

On November 24, Operational Excellence hosted its second ceremony event at the Performance Theatre in The Nest to celebrate our most recent Lean Six Sigma…
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Delivering Operational Improvement roadmaps for UBC HR, IT and Finance

Funded and endorsed by the President’s Executive Management Team, this project supports UBC’s use of UniForum data across UBC IT, Finance, and HR to identify,…
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Thursday, November 3, 2022

Operational Excellence presenting at upcoming UBC Change and Transition CoP

In the upcoming session, Alex Fiuza, Service Excellence Transformation (SET) Project Senior Manager will share how the Operational Excellence team can support you to build…
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Helen Shen joins Operational Excellence as Continuous Improvement Program Manager

Leveraging her robust experience in continuous improvement and problem solving, in addition to her passion for driving efficiency and collaboration, Helen will play a key…
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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Implementing Envisio for VPFO strategic and business plans

As of September, every department in the VPFO has entered their business plan into Envisio. This is the beginning of enhanced alignment of business objectives…
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Monday, September 5, 2022

Launching a Benefits Realization Management Program for UBC Planon

As part of an effort to efficiently manage results and drive continuous improvement following the implementation of the Planon, UBC's Enterprise Maintenance Management System (EMMS),…
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

New Lean Six Sigma toolkits & templates

Operational Excellence has created two additional vaults that contain helpful resources to guide you through your Lean Six Sigma and process improvement initiatives. The toolkits…
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Facilities’ Stores team applying Lean Six Sigma to reduce order pick time

Sean Zheng, a Store Operator from Municipal Services within UBC Facilities and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt graduate, recently implemented a simple yet effective process…
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Monday, June 13, 2022

Operational Excellence capturing over 150 continuous improvement projects in the project pipeline

Operational Excellence has captured 156 projects in our project pipeline, in addition to 57 yellow belt and 8 green belt projects delivered as part of…
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Friday, June 10, 2022

Operational Excellence celebrates Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Graduates in inaugural celebration event

On May 25, Operational Excellence hosted its first ceremony event at the Great Hall North to celebrate the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt graduates’ achievements…
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Change Management toolkit available

Change management consists of strategies and activities designed to support people as they transition through change. The UBC Human Resources Organizational Change and Transition team…
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Thursday, March 24, 2022

Delivering continuous improvement projects for the university

There are currently 126 continuous improvement projects captured in the pipeline and 60% of these projects have been completed or are in progress. For details…
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Monday, March 14, 2022

Lubna Shawwa joins Operational Excellence as Continuous Improvement Program Manager

Leveraging her robust experience in continuous improvement and problem solving, in addition to her passion for driving efficiency and collaboration, Lubna will play a key…
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Thursday, January 20, 2022

How does Operational Excellence measure success? 

In July 2021, we began to roll out Lean Six Sigma White Belt training across the VPFO portfolio. Now that the tools and knowledge to support…
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Facilities’ Stores team putting Lean Six Sigma into practice

As many of us embark on our Lean Six Sigma journey, the Stores team from Building Operations has been actively putting their learnings to work in…
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Monday, August 30, 2021

Newly added Yellow Belt Project Tool Vault

As more team members complete their Yellow Belt training over the next few months, Operational Excellence has added some helpful resources, including checklists and templates,…
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Monday, August 16, 2021

Making the MOST of a problem with Lean Six Sigma

Last week, we learned all about the DMAIC framework and how it serves as a driver of change. In the final part of this series,…
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Friday, August 6, 2021

How Lean Six Sigma drives change at UBC and beyond

In part one of this series, we looked at a foundational understanding of Lean Six Sigma. We learned that Lean Six Sigma is a process-focused approach to…
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Friday, July 30, 2021

Building a foundation in Lean Six Sigma

In the coming weeks, we will dive into the world of Lean Six Sigma together, from breaking down basic terminologies to discovering how it promotes…
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

So you’ve earned your Lean Six Sigma White Belt… What’s next?

As you complete your training, you may be wondering what's next? Well, there's a few things you can do right now to help us spread…
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Monday, May 31, 2021

UniForum activity on hold until fall 2021

With the impact of COVID-19 and the implementation of Workday last fall, UBC decided to put UniForum activity on hold for 2020/2021. Over the next…
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