Lynne Smith, former Director of Business Design at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses the potential and difficulties of applying Lean Thinking to NGOs, and how it can be used to scale impact. She reflects back on the lean transformation at the Gates Foundation with an interview with Steve Bell and Roberto Priolo, and […]
In this episode of the WLEI podcast, they discuss how universities are connecting students with for-profit and nonprofit organizations to practice and apply hands-on lean learning experiences. Dennis Wade from Oakland University and Lisa Eshbach from Ferris State University (both schools in Michigan) go into details about their background in industry, how each of their […]
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Jeff Trageser and Mike Vazquez from Lifesharing were interviewed on the JIT Cafe podcast by Elisabeth Swan and Tracy O’Rourke to discuss how process improvement has been used to help procure and facilitate organ and tissue donations from donors to local transplant centers. They discuss metrics used to track the success of organ transplant, dealing […]
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This is an excerpt from the audiobook version of “Lean Six Sigma for Good: Lessons from the Gemba (Volume 2)“ Elisabeth Swan shares the story of volunteering with the Cape Cod Childcare Development nonprofit organization. She discusses getting a call from the CEO to help the organization utilize more Lean Six Sigma Green Belt skills and […]
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Andrew Parris shared “A Vision of Process Excellence and Seven Habits for the Journey” in a Lean Frontiers webinar in August 2023. In the webinar, he explains how he merged the approach of Lean Six Sigma and other improvement methods from the corporate world with the vision, mission and values for a humanitarian organization into […]
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The Dutch Immigration and Naturalization (IND) Agency in The Netherlands is seeing a significant increase in the number of refugees. This increase in tens of thousands of applications is due to the current geopolitical situation, with conflict and poverty ravaging several countries. They have embarked on a lean journey with an internal team and begun […]
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The James P. Womack Scholarship and Philanthropy Fund (JPW Fund) and the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) teamed up with the primary goal to have two student interns analyze and improve core processes at a nonprofit organization, thus inspiring the organization to implement lean practices by showing them various methods to improve their operations. […]
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In this webinar, Colleen Johnson from ProKanban hosted Marcus Hammarberg from the School of Applied Technology </salt> and Steve Bell from Lean4NGO. The Salvation Army in Indonesia had severe damage to the roof, they were running out of money and their permit to operate had expired. Marcus was asked to help out with little to […]
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This short video highlights four case studies from different industries that have had success applying Lean principles and concepts to their organization. Omark Industries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing Appvion: https://amzn.to/3QQjNiV (Lean CEO book) City of Denver (Colorado): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puaT1KBY7Pg Virginia Mason Institute: https://www.virginiamasoninstitute.org/resource/surgical-setup-reduction-improves-patient-outcomes/ Watch the video below, or go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRtekUSXmYI
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Carlos Ruiz shares video and photos from his visit to Medical Teams Uganda to work with 3 cross functional teams to help them improve three key end-to-end processes. Watch the video below or visit https://youtu.be/wsopnZpyL6g
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