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 […]
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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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A presentation at the Lean System Society Reactor Conference by Steve Bell on the effectiveness of lean thinking as supported by Lean4NGO.org, and their efforts to reduce poverty in Africa.
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Can Lean IT help a NGO make a better job? Grameen Foundation’s objective is to give opportunities to the poor so they can break the cycle of poverty. The NGO started by giving access to micro finance and then saw opportunity in mobile technology. And this is where Lean IT helped. Discover how in Dr Odeh’s […]
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