E25: Lean for Community Projects with Maria Grzanka, Dominic Stokes and Matt Horvat
At the 2023 Lean Global Connection virtual conference held in late November, Maria Grzanka, Dominic Stokes and Matt Horvat share their exper...
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Lean Portland is a volunteer group based in Portland, Oregon that offers Lean and Six Sigma consulting to nonprofit organizations. We also host learning events, free workshops, interviews, h...
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20 of 23 episodesE24: The 8 Nelson Rules for Detecting Out of Control Conditions in a Statistical Process Control (SPC) Chart - Lean Portland Happy Hour - July 2023
When using Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts to monitor your process, you are comparing your current data to historical data to deter...
E23: Calculating Financial Benefits for Improvement Projects - Lean Portland Happy Hour - July 2022
After making improvements to your processes, a best practice is to calculate the benefits to the organization. Calculating financial benefit...
E22: Lean Portland Community Consulting Process Improvements with Nonprofits - Nov Happy Hour
Join us for a share out from our volunteer consultants about what we've learned over the past 10 years. * listening to voices of our nonprof...
E21: Applying Lean to Body Piercing with Stephanie Hill - May Happy Hour
Case Study with Stephanie Hill: Prysm Piercing Shop As a member and volunteer for the Association of Professional Piercers (APP) and having...
E20: Facilitating Process Improvement Events with Paddy O'Brien - April Happy Hour
At our April 6th Happy Hour, we are delighted to feature long-time member of Lean Portland, Sheilah "Paddy" O'Brien, who recently finished w...
E19: Daily Management Systems (DMS) at Providence with Ernest Mayer - March Happy Hour
Ernest Mayer is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Project Manager at Providence Health & Services in Portland, Oregon. He explains the Daily Manag...
Ep 18: Creating Your Personal Flow with Lori Jorgenson (Feb 2021 Happy Hour)
Creating flow is one of the principles of Lean Thinking. At first, we apply this principle to process work flows. What might we learn if we...
Ep 17: Increasing Laptop Refurbishment by 300% at Free Geek with John Ashcraft - January Happy Hour
John Ashcraft joins our monthly Happy Hour to discuss the Lean journey he has helped lead at Free Geek (along with Amber Schmidt and the lea...
Ep 16: December Happy Hour about Clean Practice with Sam Pardue
At our December Happy Hour, Sam Pardue, founder of Indow in Portland, shares his work history and how he quickly transitioned his company du...
Ep 15: Lean Portland History and Setting Up New Cities
Founders of the Lean Portland volunteer group talk with practitioners from Charlotte and Jacksonville to provide history of the group and re...
Ep 14: Norman "Godfather of Lean" Bodek Interview - Sept 2020 Happy Hour
Our guest for the September 2020 Happy Hour was Norman Bodek, the "Godfather of Lean" He had left the Portland area recently, and moved to J...
Ep 13: May Happy Hour - Lean Networking Groups
We are so excited to continue our Happy Hour series in the virtual world. One of the benefits of this space is that we can invite people fro...
Ep 10: "Lean and Energy Efficiency" with Kjell van Zoen
Since it's inception in 2005, and According to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, Strategic Energy Management (SEM) takes a "holistic app...
Ep 11: Master Brewers Association Northwest - Continuous Improvement Resources Presentation
Lean Portland was asked to present on Continuous Improvement Resources at the Master Brewers Association of America (MBAA) District Northwes...
Ep 9: Nonprofit Volunteering with IISE Chapters
Here is a webinar that Brion Hurley held with the IISE organization that discusses the work done with Lean Portland and other IISE chapters...
Ep 8: "Lean Startups for Social Change" with Michel Gelobter
Are you interested in developing a plan to test out your social entrepreneurship, nonprofit or mission-driven business ideas? Don't waste va...
Ep 7: Lean Principles for the Building Reuse Industry (BMRA)
Matt Horvat and Brion Hurley, along with Kelly Stevens from The Rebuilding Center, were asked to give a webinar to the Building Material Reu...
Ep 6: Is Certification Right for Me? with Nicole Sisco from PSU CEPE
Is 'certification' right for me? Whether you're talking about Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, PMI, APICS, Prosci or countless other certificati...
Ep 4: Presentation at Oregon DHS Lean Academy Conference
This is a presentation on Lean Culture given by Maria Grzanka and Ernest Mayer from our Lean Portland team. We were asked to present at the...