Explains how Lean can be applied in a church by specifying value, eliminating waste, making value flow, responding to customer pull and pursuing perfection (based on Lean Thinking).
Published with Don Pope in the Regent Business Review, Issue 10, March/April 2004
Explains how we taught and coached Lean Six Sigma in World Vision's East Africa region, and the amazing results that were achieved.
Published in The TQM Journal 29 August 2013, Vol. 25, No. 5
Presents the similarities between Lean and Transformational Development, and how World Vision has applied Lean to improve its processes.
Published in Industrial and Systems Engineering Magazine, April 2019
Explains how continuous improvement can be used in a humanitarian context. Demonstrates how versatile Lean principles truly are.
Published on The Gemba Academy Podcast, July 2020
Shows the similarities between principles found in Lean and in the Bible, and encourages Christian Leaders to apply these principles more fully in their lives and work.
Published with Don Pope in the Christian Business Review, Fall 2020
Shows the similarities between principles found in Lean and in humanitarian work, and encourages Humanitarian Leaders to apply these principles more fully in their organizations and work.
Presented in the Humanitarian Leadership Conference 2021
Shows the similarities between principles found in Lean and in humanitarian work, and encourages Humanitarian Leaders to apply these principles more fully in their organizations and work.
Published with Bublu Thakur-Weigold in The Humanitarian Leader, October 2021
Recounts my Lean journey. Presents the differences between aerospace and other sectors and how they approach process improvement. Explains how World Vision East Africa used Lean to cut annual costs by more than $1.5M.
Published on The Lean Effect Podcast, Nov. 2021
Explains how Lean can make an important contribution in the non-profit context, getting life-saving supplies such as medicines or food to their destination faster. By reducing operational costs, humanitarian organizations can reach more people in need.
Presented with Bublu Thakur-Weigold in Berlin Science Week, November 2021
Describes the application of Lean in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in developing countries as part of the International Trade Centre's Quality Champions (QC) program. Includes success stories and testimony from QCs and SMEs.
Published in ISE Magazine, November 2022
Presents the seven basic habits that can be learned and applied by everyone in any organization to improve processes and performance. These seven habits help individuals, teams and organizations pursue Process Excellence.
Published in the American Society for Quality's Lean & Six Sigma Review, May 2023
Presents Process Excellence and the Seven Habits of Process Improvement, shares examples of improvement in World Vision, Medair, and by Quality Champions in Laos and Nepal. Requests Lean Six Sigma professionals to provide pro bono coaching through Lean360.
Published as a webinar by Lean Frontiers in August 2022
Introduces Medair, explains how Medair does Lean, shares numerous improvements, and invites Lean and LSS professionals to provide pro bono coaching through Lean360.
Published as part of the virtual Lean Global Connection conference 30 November 2023
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