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*'''Value''' - the ecosystem services that we are charged to protect and restore for various publics, as represented by legislatures. | *'''Value''' - the ecosystem services that we are charged to protect and restore for various publics, as represented by legislatures. | ||
*'''Waste''' - waste is any resource expended without directly generating value. Some waste is necessary. The goal of a production system is to create value with the least waste possible--perfect production. | *'''Waste''' - waste is any resource expended without directly generating value. Some waste is necessary. The goal of a production system is to create value with the least waste possible--perfect production. | ||
==The Workshop== | |||
The work group is hosting a workshop in October, seeking champions and exploring improvement strategies for the following complaints. | |||
===Coordinate System=== | |||
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|'''Meeting Travel Vortex'''||Remote and web-cast meetings need to be standard and efficient to reduce wasted effort in coordination.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Local Notification'''||State-federal programs have an efficient mechanism for providing information about program activities to local teams, reducing beneficial impacts.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Grant Reporting Redundancy'''||Each grant and planning system assigns unique reporting and data management tasks diverting limited local capacity from ecosystem management, and undermining collective reporting.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Grant Budget Coordination'''||Project managers waste resources managing a unique budget for each grant to meet application requirements.||[[Large Project Budget Standards]] | |||
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|'''Master Application'''||Each funding program uses different language to describe projects, requiring each applicant to redefine the project for that programs application.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Grant Matching'''||Administration of grant match consumes critical resources limiting the rate of ecosystem recovery with unclear benefits.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Performance Measure Standards'''||The use of different preformance measures among programs undermines regional performance reporting.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Coordinated Geographic Acquisition Priorities'''||Different programs offer different acquisition, lease, and incentive tools and have different priorities, preventing field teams from operating with a full toolkit in any one geography.||Submitted | |||
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|'''Improving Stewardship of Acquisitions'''||Once acquired, conservation lands have weak mechanisms for long-term stewardship, unsupported by state-federal resources.||Submitted | |||
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==The Workgroup== | ==The Workgroup== |
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Prototype ApproachIn November 2018 the Ecosystem Coordination Board (ECB) agreed that developing "kaizen" mechanisms in Puget Sound recovery could be useful for improving how we do ecosystem management. We agreed that the "coordination community" would be the right group for designing this kind of effort, and understanding whether new capacity is required. We have formed a temporary volunteer workgroup from within the "coordination community", staffed by NOAA Restoration Center. This workgroup is implementing a rudimentary but functioning continuous improvement process. We envision a four step approach:
Our assumption is that continuous improvement of the Ecosystem Recovery System is not optional--our systems are particularly cumbersome and likely to benefit from Kaizen. We will test Steps 1 and 2 of the above proposed system in the Summer and Fall of 2019. We will bring our improvement proposals and system designs back to the ECB and affected institutions in early winter, and aim to work on steps 3 and 4 through the 2020 project development season.
The VocabularyThere is lots of lingo above. It is useful to know how we are using words to represent specific concepts:.
The WorkshopThe work group is hosting a workshop in October, seeking champions and exploring improvement strategies for the following complaints. Coordinate System
The Workgroup
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