The Iowa Lean Consortium has named Karen Kiel Rosser, vice president and quality improvement officer for Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, as the 2015 Iowa Lean Champion. The award was created to honor a leader who has made significant contributions to lean practices or led a “lean journey” for 10 or more years. The award was presented today at the ILC’s annual fall conference. Rosser spearheaded the development and implementation of a systemwide framework for performance excellence at Mary Greeley, utilizing the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program criteria as well as the tools of lean and Six Sigma. Lean is a methodology focusing on the elimination of waste within a process to improve time, cost and quality while providing customers exactly what they need.     Read a previous article about creating a lean culture on BusinessRecord.com.