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 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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Lean IT experts Steve Bell and Karen Whitley Bell provided some pro-bono work to help the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Grameen Foundation in Uganda scale a successful innovation to other developing countries in Africa. The innovation was called the Community Knowledge Worker Program (CKW), and it involved hiring locals with knowledge of farming and customs, and […]
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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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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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