The Oregon City Farmers Market reached out to Lean Portland for suggestions on how to offer their year-round market during a pandemic. As Lean Portland has experienced with other nonprofits, their goal is to remove waste and inefficiency in the process unrelated to building relationships, so that more time can be spent in conversation between volunteers, staff and […]
Tim Turner worked at Toyota in Kentucky (TMMK) for 22 years, and has done a lot of work with nonprofits and not-for-profit organizations. He created the book, One Team on All Levels: Stories from Toyota Team Members In this podcast interview, he discusses his vast experiences and positions at Toyota, his perspective on servant leadership, […]
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by Brion Hurley The Lean Government Exchange is an annual one day event of government officials, stakeholders and advocates implementing lean principles (primarily members of the Iowa Lean Consortium, but open to all). I last attended the inaugural Exchange in June 2017 in Des Moines, Iowa. Due to the pandemic, I was actually able to […]
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by Brion Hurley One of the more popular books related to process improvement in government is “We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths That Keep Government from Radically Improving” by Ken Miller. Ken Miller, who also wrote Extreme Government Makeover, is the founder of the Change and Innovation Agency, a firm dedicated to increasing government’s […]
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by Brion Hurley Rise Against Hunger is an international hunger relief nonprofit organization that distributes food and life-changing aid to the world’s most vulnerable, to help end hunger by 2030. They are working to help impact the UN SDG: Goal #2, Zero Hunger. Based on their implementation of lean, Six Sigma, systems thinking and engineering principles, they […]
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by Brion Hurley Philip Washburn started to learn about Lean Six Sigma when he had recently become the Program Director of Habitat for Humanity-MidOhio. Habitat for Humanity helps build affordable new homes around the world. Philip quickly realized that Lean Six Sigma tools had potential to help the organization. He became a certified Black Belt […]
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by Brion Hurley Brent Weichers is the Director of Continuous Improvement at The Lighthouse for the Blind. Based out of Seattle, Washington, they are a not-for-profit Aerospace and Military Supply manufacturing company. The Lighthouse employs over 260 individuals who are blind, DeafBlind or blind with other disabilities. When he started the job and started to […]
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by Brion Hurley Kieran Mohammed started his Lean Six Sigma journey as an operations manager in manufacturing. His early years taught him how performance success relies on the development of and collaboration with people. Along with his experience as a performance improvement consultant and program analyst in government, he has tailored his own unique approach […]
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by Brion Hurley An interview with Lynn McCullough and Joe Wojniak about their improvement work at TRU Hospice Thrift Shop in Boulder, Colorado. TRU Thrift Shop sells donated household items and clothes to raise money to provide hospice care services for those in need. Despite some initial resistance to the process changes, they were able […]
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by Brion Hurley Lean and Six Sigma principles and methods are continuing to gain popularity, especially in public service and nonprofit organizations. A new book has been released that shares the experiences of Lean and Six Sigma experts who have applied their skills to not-for-profit organizations. The book is called “Lean Six Sigma For Good: […]
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