{"id":22843,"date":"2017-04-09T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/?p=22843"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:40:03","slug":"social-good-can-we-change-the-world-with-lean-systems-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/social-good-can-we-change-the-world-with-lean-systems-thinking\/22843\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean Thinking: Can We Change the World For Social Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-ngo-shmulablog.jpg\" alt=\"lean thinking, social good, poverty, ngo, shmula blog\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-ngo-shmulablog.jpg 800w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-ngo-shmulablog-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-ngo-shmulablog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-ngo-shmulablog-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poverty in Africa\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, 22 of 24 nations identified as having &#8216;Low Human Development&#8217; on the United Nations&#8217; (UN) Human Development Index were in Sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0We know that 34 of the 50 nations on the UN list of least developed countries are in Africa.<span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span>In many nations, GDP per capita is less than $5200 per year, with the vast majority of the population living on much less. In addition, Africa&#8217;s share of income has been consistently dropping over the past century by any measure. In 1820, the average European worker earned about three times what the average African did. Now, the average European earns twenty times what the average African does.<span size=\"2\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span>Although GDP per capita incomes in Africa have also been steadily growing, measures are still far better in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p><span>This video features Steve Bell at the Lean System Society Reactor Conference. Steve addresses the\u00a0effectiveness of Lean thinking as supported by Lean4NGO.org. \u00a0The\u00a0goal of <a href=\"http:\/\/lean4ngo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lean4NGO.org<\/a> is to leverage the principles, systems and tools of Lean thinking to improve efficiency and effectiveness outcomes for those they serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>View the video here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leansixsigmaforgood.com\/lean-systems-thinking-with-steve-bell-can-we-change-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-shmulablog-1024x507.png\" alt=\"lean thinking, social media, ngo, shmula blog\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-shmulablog-1024x507.png 1024w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-shmulablog-600x297.png 600w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-shmulablog-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-shmulablog-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/leanthinking-socialgood-shmulablog.png 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty in Africa\u00a0is about the lack of basic human needs faced by certain people in African society. 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