Does your city have a city manager? If yes, then you’re among the lucky constituents.
Locally, I’m not really sure if we have a city manager. I guess the closest post would be the city administrator. I just don’t know if they perform similarly. 
Well, Tyler City of Texas joins the other cities into adopting Lean Six Sigma principles to give better service to its constituents. Tyler Paper Online reports that Mark McDaniel is the new Tyler city manager. And as the city manager, McDaniel says he will do the following:
- develop plans and annual budgets for city services as well as manage the city’s 25 departments
- continue placing the highest priority on responsiveness to the citizens of Tyler
- do a lot of self evaluation
- maintain the city’s culture of continuous improvement
- work on the five organizational goals that include: streamline, empower, respond, venture and evaluate
- look to Lean Six Sigma techniques and strategies
- have the Lean practices focus on process speed and the Six Sigma practices on process quality
Way to go, Tyler City!
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