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...
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...
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...
