The Grameen Foundation’s goal is to reach more people across the spectrum of poverty, while deepening the focus on the very poor, especially women. Over the past twenty years, one billion people have been able to exit extreme poverty. The Grameen Foundation has the unprecedented opportunity to accelerate such changes, especially for the 800 million […]
Podcast: The Impact of Lean Six Sigma on the Environment
Lean and Six Sigma together can make businesses and organizations more efficient and productive. In most cases, those focusing on Lean and Six Sigma are looking at the bottom line and trying to find ways to save time and money while still creating the best product or service possible. We now understand that the practice of Lean […]
Lean Thinking: Can We Change the World For Social Good?
Poverty in Africa is about the lack of basic human needs faced by certain people in African society. African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources. In 2009, 22 of 24 nations identified as […]
Using Lean Startup for Greater Social Impact
The following guest article was written by Jordan Rosenfeld, contributor for Lean Startup Co. The exponential speed of technological change has been a boon for nonprofits. Thanks to the digital tools at our fingertips, organizations in the social sector can immediately test the impact of their work, says Michel Gelobter, author of Lean Startups for Social Change. […]
Lean A3 Examples in Healthcare – Lean for Haiti
Russell Maroni, a Lean Six Sigma leader at The Akron Children’s Hospital Center of Operations Excellence (COE), had the opportunity to spend much time in Haiti as a selfless volunteer. During his time there, he wrote his thoughts in a journal, which he has since published as a Kindle Book. When you buy and read […]