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 […]
Winpack, a leading packaging and film producer, is pioneering an innovative solution to minimize the generation of plastic waste. They operate a dedicated recycling plant in Chile with an impressive annual capacity of 6,000 tons of polyethylene, showcasing their determination to mitigate environmental impact. Alarmingly, approximately 10 million tons of plastic infiltrate our oceans each […]
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Racism, inclusion and discrimination is not a problem many lean thinkers are called to tackle in their daily lives at work, but that doesn’t mean that Lean Thinking has nothing to say about it. Roberto Priolo interviews Michael Balle, co-founder of the Institut Lean France, and is asked numerous questions, including: If we look at […]
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Sarah Williams, Head of Student Services at Christleton High School in England, shares the work the school is doing to improve the delivery of education to students with special needs using lean thinking. In 2013, the school was told there would be budget cuts and they started to look into opportunities to make the Students […]
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The historical city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands has introduced lean thinking and practice in local government to provide better and faster services to its citizens. Their lean journey started in one department in late 2009 with two small projects. Even though there was no plan in place at the beginning, it spread like an […]
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