Episode 15 of Gemba Academy is an interview with Mike Grogan, who works for CCBRT, a medical relief clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is helping them apply Lean to their healthcare operations. Lean Healthcare in Tanzania with Mike Grogan
Ron Pereira and Bryan Glenn, from West Texas A&M, discuss how Lean and Six Sigma are creating incredible value for their university and its employees. He discusses successful projects at WTAMU to reduce time and waste for students, such as paperwork reduction in student housing applications, along with a reduction in voucher printing that saved […]
Michael (Mike) Grogan is an Irishman who was working in Lean manufacturing in the United States for many years until a holiday to Tanzania a couple of years ago opened his eyes up to what he calls one of the largest humanitarian crises on the planet: the state of healthcare in Africa. Lessons on Lean […]
Episode 10 on the Gemba Academy podcast is Steve Bell, a longtime lean thinker. While his background is in the IT and Agile spaces, Steve’s passion is using lean to help NGOs and nonprofits. The episode aired in June 2014. Using Lean to Help NGOs with Steve Bell He later made an appearance in episode […]
At this year’s conference in Montréal, the Sustainable Development Division along with West Monroe Partners, an international consulting firm with an IE oriented practice based in Montréal, coordinated a volunteering event for the Saturday before the conference. This volunteering event served as an opportunity to give back to the community that hosted our annual IIE […]
Toyota and Babson College’s Social Innovation Lab partnered with The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) to help expedite the distribution of food to those in need.  The partnership aims to enhance productivity, and inventory control practices at GBFB while teaching Babson students a real-world lesson in how Toyota’s manufacturing know-how can enhance the work of nonprofits. Babson faculty have […]
Applying lean to government is a movement in its early stages. Lean thinking applied to public service processes can help deliver more value to customers, namely citizens. Lean management makes work processes better so government becomes more effective and efficient. That means government should engage all public servants in lean thinking and practice to tap their creativity […]
The City of Melbourne is leading the way in applying lean to local government in Australia, having embarked on its lean journey in earnest in 2009. As it often happens in organizations in sectors relatively new to the methodology, City of Melbourne (CoM) staff was skeptical of the method’s application to local government and in […]
It is estimated that there are some 12 million street children in India. Many children who run away from home use the train as a means of escape. A case study was conducted with Sathi to determine if Value Chain Analysis would apply to the process of reducing runaway children. Read more at Lean4NGO: http://lean4ngo.org/images/stories/A-supply-chain-of-children.pdf
The staff at Global Links took an honest look at the medical device storage room after they’d completed their first learning sessions about Lean. They thought that the Lean technique of 5S could help them sort things out and make things run more efficiently. Since that first 5S, Global Links found another warehouse space that fit their […]