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Process Improvement

Help The Land Institute Identify and implement process improvements to reduce cost, effort, errors, and other inefficiencies, and use defined metrics to measure their success.
The Land Institute
Salina, KS, USA
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Posted January 13th

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What we need
  • Written recommendations to improve a specific process, including the controls necessary to maintain the revised process
  • An outline of key metrics for tracking how successful the process improvements are over time, with current-state benchmarks
Additional details

Planning to scale up agricultural research non-profit substantially over next 5-10 years, want to see how other non-profits have done this and operationalize size along the way. At what size in terms of revenue or employees, etc. should we contemplate having in house counsel, IT, HR, audit, etc.? How do we staff the scale up appropriately outside of the research function? How do revenue models change over that time - is there any precedent about when establishing an endowment is essential?

What we have in place
  • We currently have a strategic plan and a growth mindset, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have leadership open to innovation, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $7,888 , allowing us to invest in board software to increase the efficiency and speed of leadership management and decision making to help quickly facilitate changes.

The concept we are working on--perennial grains grown in diverse agroecosystems--has gained proof of concept and support of the global research community, and we are now looking to scale the work to meet the challenge. We are projecting that we will double our revenue/expense every 5 years for the next 10 years. This growth strategy is to leverage existing global partners (over a hundred in 15 countries) to formalize a global network and create regional hubs of international R&D activity.

Project plan

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Prep: Distribution of Materials
  • Volunteer Manager provides current state map or process assessment document and other relevant materials to the Professional (see the Process Assessment project if you do not have a current state map)
  • Professional connects with Volunteer Manager for a brainstorming/overview session on perceived inefficiencies and potential improvements
  • Volunteer Manager explains the key goals for the process improvement (e.g., reduced cost, errors, time, etc.)
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Milestone 1: Research & Analysis
  • Professional review the documentation provided and requests clarification as needed
  • Professional performs any additional research and analysis, including interviews with key stakeholders if needed
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Milestone 2: Draft Recommendations
  • Professional provides initial recommendation on process improvements, controls, and key success metrics
  • Organization provides feedback which the Professional incorporates
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Milestone 3: Final Recommendations
  • Professional delivers a final document summarizing recommendations for process improvements and controls to maintain the new process
  • Professional provides an outline of the key metrics the Organization should track in order to measure success over time, as well as the current-state benchmark metrics
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Rachel S.

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Our mission

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned, while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

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We got exactly what we needed! Michele was very knowledgeable and thorough in helping us with our assessment. We enjoyed working with her and would happily do so again!
Rachel S.
Rachel S.

President

Process Improvement Project

The Land Institute was great to work with. They valued the insights delivered in the project and were clear in their expected deliverables.
Michele H.
Michele H.

Volunteer