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...
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...
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...
Founders of the Lean Portland volunteer group talk with practitioners from Charlotte (NC) and Jacksonville (FL) to provide a brief history of our group, along with recommendations for how they could set up their own volunteer group where they live. You can also listen...
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 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...
Our guest presenter during our first Zoom Happy Hour on April 7th was Amy Powell, a Certified Culture Transformation Practitioner with the Barrett Values Centre. She showed us how to measure the 7 Levels of culture, and guided us through an exercise to measure culture...
April Happy Hour: Lean & Energy Efficiency / Apr 2, 2019 – Kjell van Zoen, who runs the Strategic Energy Management (SEM) program for Energy 350, explains the overlaps in SEM and Lean, and how he applies lean skills to SEM to further Energy 350’s mission...
This article was published in The Hollywood Star News in Feb 2019 Lean Portland is an organization focused on helping nonprofits by applying principles rooted in efficiency and continuous improvement. When Matt Horvat, an internal process and healthcare professional...
