by Brion Hurley | Jan 8, 2021 | Local Events, News
At our first Happy Hour of 2021, we are joined by John Ashcraft, who has been our focal point and best advocate for Lean at Free Geek. He shares the journey we’ve gone through over the past 4 years, and how they’ve applied Lean principles and concepts to...
by Brion Hurley | Dec 22, 2020 | Local Events, News
Sam Pardue shares his work background, and how we leveraged Lean practices at his company (Indow) to reduce risks of COVID transmission, called Clean Practice. Watch the video from our December 2020 Happy...
by Brion Hurley | Dec 11, 2020 | News
We are saddened to hear of the news about the death of Norman Bodek, known as the “Godfather of Lean.” Norman had an amazing influence on the process improvement community, translating and publishing many of the Japanese improvement books into English. You...
by Brion Hurley | Oct 6, 2020 | Local Events, News
Norman Bodek recently released a new book, “The Leader’s Guide for Social Responsibility” During our September 2020 Happy Hour event, he discusses the Gold Vision method and how to set very high goals, such as how to: Be very successful in life...
by Brion Hurley | Jun 17, 2020 | Local Events, News
by Brion Hurley The Oregon City Farmers Market had faced many challenges this year, trying to figure out how to offer their year-round market during a pandemic. As one of the first farmers markets to open up in Oregon, the leadership team quickly came up with a...
by Matt Horvat | Jan 24, 2018 | News
We’ve been trying to keeps costs to a minimum here at Lean Portland and had to stop using Meetup.com. There is a $15/month organizing fee that comes with groups as large as ours. Our events will now be on Eventbrite. For full details please visit...