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Top 25 Innovation in Government Award
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government named the Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT) Lean Everyday Ideas (LEI) Program as a Top 25 Innovation in American Government for 2018. Read more here
Employee Engagement Project of the Year Award (Government Agency)
The Colorado Department of Transportation won the Employee Engagement Project of the Year Award (Government Agency) in 2017. See the entire list of winners here
Bright Ideas Award - John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, recognized today the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Lean Process Improvement Initiative as a part of the 2015 Bright Ideas program. Read more here
CDOT Process Improvement Team Finalists in Global Competition
A Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) process improvement team that worked in the area of improving oversize and overweight vehicle permitting procedures and business practices has been honored among the top such teams in the world by the 2013 World Conference on Quality and Improvement. More about the competition here
Employee Spotlight
Michelle Malloy - Inspiring Leader Award
Michelle Malloy received the 2020 Inspiring Leader Award from the international Inspiring Workplaces program, honoring her work to build and sustain the CDOT change management initiative, which helps to ensure that each and every person will be successful with each and every change that impacts them. Read the article here.
Cheryl Wright - Unsung Hero Award
Former Office of Process Improvement Employee Cheryl Wright won the Unsung Hero Award (presented by the Employee Engagement Awards) in 2017. See the entire list of winners here.
Four OPI Intern's Win the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Future Industry Leader Spotlight Award:
Aimee Resnick, winner of the 2024 award.
Victoria Farberov, winner of the 2021 award.
Meagan Brown, winner of the 2018 award.
Laura James (nee Parsons), winner of the 2017 award.
Geneva Hooten - Route Fifty Award
Geneva Hooten, a former employee with the Office of Process Improvement, received a national "Navigator" Award from Route Fifty in 2019, in the " Next Generation" category. Read the article here.
Articles Recognizing CDOT Improvement Efforts
Transportation Organization Drives Sustainable Improvements With Prosci - August 25, 2018 - Prosci
With Colorado's population expected to almost double in the next few decades, managing change effectively became a strategic imperative for CDOT. The government organization chose to partner with Prosci to help build internal change management competencies across the organization. Read more.
Lean Initiatives Kick-Start Cost Savings and Superior Services - April 11, 2017 - StateTech
Technology goes far to support state and local lean initiatives that streamline workloads for employees and service delivery for citizens. Read more.
Change Agent Networks: A Success Story - May 16, 2016 - Govloop
Think about someone you work with who is friendly, politically savvy, loyal and is always in-the-know. Someone who exercises their emotional intelligence to build relationships both up and down the organizational hierarchy. When these people use their abilities to engage and influence to catalyze change, we call them “change agents.” Read more.
Your Front Line: An Untapped Power House of Improvement Potential - May 9, 2014 - Careers in Gov.
For the highway maintenance crews at the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), fixing bent, twisted, or knocked down delineators was a difficult and dangerous task. Delineators are those U-shaped steel posts with reflectors on top that are spaced every 500 feet or so to designate the edge of highways. Read more.
How Colorado's Transportation Department Is Institutionalizing Improvement - April 10, 2014 - Governing
Not so many years ago, it would have been unheard of for anyone in government to have Gary Vansuch's title. He's the director of process improvement for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and a symbol of the fact that change can be a very good thing. Read more.
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