The Messenger reports that the City of Fort Dodge, Iowa will be adapting Toyota’s Lean Manufacturing principles. The city will aim to be a lean government in the coming months or so.
City Manager David Fierke described lean government as the ”logical next step of what we’ve been doing all along.” He added that adopting lean government is necessary as well as logical. ”If we stay with the status quo, we’re going to get to the point where we’re in a financial crisis,” he said.
He is likewise recommending that the council hire PDG of Story City to help implement lean government practices. The company would be paid $5,400 a month for the first year of its services, $3,750 a month for the second year and $2,500 a month for the third year.
I like the way Mayor Fierke views lean, that it is something that will make his government improve and become better. Fort Dodge joins the many other cities such as whose government are realizing the benefit of going into Lean and Six Sigma.
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