Lean Six Sigma for Good: Lessons from the Gemba, Volume 1

After writing the first book about why Lean and Six Sigma practitioners should volunteer their skills to help nonprofits, I wanted to give more tangible and real-life examples of how these tools and techniques can be applied. I've reached out to friends and colleagues who are already volunteering their time, and asked them to write a chapter for this first volume, called Lessons Learned from the Gemba. Here are the list of volunteers who contributed to the book, along with the title of their chapter: Joe Hnat: "Can a Corporate Employee Garden Feed the Hungry?" Pat O’Connor: "Lessons from a Flag Program and Ushering" Andrew Parris: "International Relief and Development Improvement" Mark Novak: "Leaning Out Disaster Relief" Brion Hurley: "Applying Lean Six Sigma to a Nonprofit Fundraiser Conference" Kieran Mohammed: "Performance Improvement Journeyman; from Manufacturing to Government and Nonprofits" Brent Weichers: "Training and Implementing Lean with a Blind Workforce" Philip Washburn: