Administrative Process Redesign (APR)  provides our campus with a framework for efficiency, improving how we do business and changing how we interact with one another. It was initiated in response to tighter administrative budgets, pending staff retirements and on-going technological changes.
 
APR is also playing an integral role in Administrative Excellence (AE), an initiative to identify opportunities for our campus to become more effective and efficient, and find ways to save monies.  Seven AE teams working on large projects received approval from campus leaders to move forward with their recommendations. For more information and updates, visit www.adminexcellence.wisc.edu

APR is about teamwork, building a better university and creating a better future. We'll accomplish these goals by inclusively and transparently engaging our campus community. We welcome your comments and questions.

Process Improvement Implementations Planned 

Access to Campus IT Systems  

This team completed its work in January 2013 to improve the process for maintaining a campus resource called "Access to Campus IT Systems", a web-based guide to help staff secure access to campus IT systems either for themselves or others.  This resource was intially made available to university staff in November 2008 as a result of the work of the original APR team, "IT Access for Employees Transferring within the University".  The newly formed team achieved its goals to ensure that information about accessing frequently used administrative IT systems is always accurate and easily assessible to staff.  In the next few weeks, an announcement will be made to campus staff about the enhancement of this guide.  

Transportation Services Campus Event Preparation (Kaizen Project)

A Kaizen event was conducted in January to gather data during an actual preparation of a parking lot for a special event and then arrive at solutions. The goal was to establish effective techniques to minimize preparation for special event parking and do a better job of satisfying customers impacted by the events.  Transportation Services has published an article on the project outcomese here.

Re-Visiting Housing Resident Check-Out Process in 2013