https://www.gwcconsulting.org/blog-3-1 daily 0.75 2026-09-25 https://www.gwcconsulting.org/blog-3-1/masterclass-pre-reading monthly 0.5 2026-09-25 https://www.gwcconsulting.org/blog-3-1/22-to-12-how-process-measurement-can-lean-out-and-transform-a-municipal-housing-renovation-program monthly 0.5 2026-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/014b7864-f13d-4e4d-947a-18c0af9f39d8/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+18%2C+2026%2C+11_21_11+PM.png GWC Insights - 22 to 12: How Process Measurement Can LEAN out and Transform a Municipal Housing Renovation Program On paper, the program worked. In practice, it was taking an average of approximately 22 months to move a project from application to completion. Some projects took more than three years. The slow process was even contributing to program underspending: in 2017, 22% of the available funding went unused, resulting in more than $54,000 being returned. The question was straightforward: Where was all that time going? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/0747469e-319f-49aa-87f1-d7a64f89e0f3/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+18%2C+2026%2C+11_27_06+PM.png GWC Insights - 22 to 12: How Process Measurement Can LEAN out and Transform a Municipal Housing Renovation Program - Step 1: Measure the Entire Journey We mapped the process from the moment an applicant entered the program through to the final inspection and payment. Rather than treating the program as a single process, we divided it into five major phases: Screening → Inspection → Work Planning & Coordination → Renovations → Processing & Payment The results immediately showed that the delays weren't evenly distributed. The largest bottleneck was work planning and coordination: approximately 366 days—nearly half of the entire process. That changed the conversation. We no longer had a vague problem called “the program takes too long.” We had identified where the problem lived! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/45c1a219-9845-4646-8e23-dc20f42f677e/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+18%2C+2026%2C+11_42_35+PM.png GWC Insights - 22 to 12: How Process Measurement Can LEAN out and Transform a Municipal Housing Renovation Program - From 22 Months to 12 The redesigned future state established a target of reducing the average project timeline from approximately 22 months to 12 months. That's a reduction of roughly 10 months—or more than 45%—without eliminating the underlying service. The improvement came from redesigning how the service was delivered: better communication, fewer gaps, work performed in parallel, removal of an unnecessary financial barrier, clearer ownership, and active progress monitoring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/16c39643-2412-4a8a-baf7-66ae3a974943/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+18%2C+2026%2C+11_43_29+PM.png GWC Insights - 22 to 12: How Process Measurement Can LEAN out and Transform a Municipal Housing Renovation Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.gwcconsulting.org/blog-3-1/strategy-without-data-is-guesswork-data-without-strategy-is-noise monthly 0.5 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/879c278c-cb42-40c1-bccd-8b4f5a8d4bbc/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+17%2C+2026%2C+06_22_33+PM.png GWC Insights - Strategy without Data is Guesswork. 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That creates a much more useful cycle: Set the direction → Take action → Measure results → Learn → Adjust At GWC Consulting, we help organizations turn vision into action through structured, measurable approaches — connecting strategy with the decisions and operations that ultimately determine results. https://www.gwcconsulting.org/blog-3-1/how-benchmarking-amp-performance-measurement-increases-revenue-by-100kyr-and-drives-efficiency-in-a-dental-practice monthly 0.5 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/405d7847-0c96-4be5-ba1a-e717519d7d55/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+17%2C+2026%2C+05_24_29+PM.png GWC Insights - How Benchmarking & Performance Measurement Increases Revenue by $100K/yr and Drives Efficiency in a Dental Practice - The Problem: A Scheduling Bottleneck The practice operated two dental chairs with two hygienists providing routine teeth-cleaning appointments. Each appointment effectively required approximately 50 minutes: about 45 minutes for the hygiene portion of the appointment, followed by approximately five minutes for the dentist to complete the final examination. On its own, that seemed perfectly reasonable. The problem became apparent when we looked at the process across an entire day. The length of each appointment limited the number of patients the practice could accommodate. With two hygienists and two chairs, even a relatively small inefficiency was being repeated over and over again. The question wasn’t whether the hygienists were working hard enough. The better question was: Could the same quality of service be delivered through a more efficient process? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/f3cdf69c-391a-40ac-82c1-07c4e68be8c5/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+17%2C+2026%2C+05_28_33+PM.png GWC Insights - How Benchmarking & Performance Measurement Increases Revenue by $100K/yr and Drives Efficiency in a Dental Practice - Step 1: Measure Before You Manage Before trying to change the schedule, we needed to understand what was actually happening during those 45 minutes. GWC Consulting broke the appointment into its individual components and examined how much time was being spent at each stage of the process. This is where performance measurement becomes particularly valuable. Instead of treating a “teeth cleaning” as a single 45-minute activity, we looked at the individual steps that made up the appointment. That allowed us to identify where time was essential to patient care, where processes could be improved, and where minutes were being lost simply because “that’s how we’ve always done it.” Importantly, the objective was not to rush patients or compromise the quality of care. The objective was to remove inefficiency from the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/3ac86170-6125-466c-adf5-8d0016c060d9/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+17%2C+2026%2C+05_45_34+PM.png GWC Insights - How Benchmarking & Performance Measurement Increases Revenue by $100K/yr and Drives Efficiency in a Dental Practice - Step 3: Finding 5-Minutes After breaking down and examining the process, we identified an opportunity to reduce the hygiene portion of the appointment from approximately 45 minutes to 40 minutes without reducing the service provided to the patient. The dentist's five-minute examination remained. That meant the complete process could move from approximately 50 minutes to 45 minutes. Five minutes. That was the improvement. And viewed in isolation, five minutes sounds almost insignificant. But businesses don't operate one appointment at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68f4c550742cfd08c9c33413/0004c5bf-e15b-4fd6-8e65-97a5b246f196/ChatGPT+Image+Sep+17%2C+2026%2C+05_49_39+PM.png GWC Insights - How Benchmarking & Performance Measurement Increases Revenue by $100K/yr and Drives Efficiency in a Dental Practice - 5-Minutes Multiplied This is where process improvement becomes a financial exercise. Saving five minutes on one appointment saves five minutes. Saving five minutes across every hygiene appointment creates additional capacity. Across two chairs, multiple appointments per day, five days per week and dozens of operating weeks each year, those small increments of time accumulate. That additional capacity can be used in different ways. 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