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...
The Lean Portland Happy Hour focused theme for our January 1st Tuesday event was on Lean (and other) certifications. Nicole Sisco, Portland State Center of Executive and Professional Education started the conversation about their certificate programs and we discussed...
Several volunteers from Lean Portland and a few nonprofit partners took a tour on November 21st, 2018 to learn how the Vancouver Clinic (VC) performs their daily management system for escalating problems. Tour attendees were John Ashcraft (Free Geek), Drew Koessler...
By Bret Matthews Lean Portland members Ernest Mayer and Maria Grzanka co-presented the keynote at the Oregon Department of Human Services Annual Lean Academy Conference on August 14, 2018. The presentation was titled “Understanding Culture for Continuous...
Lots of fun work and humbling life lessons presented by Free Geek and ReBuilding Center at the Spring Forum of the Association of Oregon Recyclers. Thanks to Brion for all his work with environmental responsibility.
By Mike Alfoni, Project Manager Rebuilding Center Starting last summer the warehouse team with the support of Lean Portland started developing a project management and decision-making process for how things “get done” around here. We were faced with too...
We’re excited to introduce a new conference that will be held April 14th, 2018 in Portland, Oregon! The theme of the conference is the Future of Work. It will be Open Space that will explore the intersection of Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, the Responsive...
Lean Portland will be speaking about our volunteer work with reuse nonprofits at the upcoming Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR) Spring Forum. The event is titled “Reuse Systems and Organizations in Action,” and will be held at McMenamins Kennedy School...
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...
