Tag: Green

By Jason Turgeon:In the last couple of weeks, Mark's been hammering the midwestern grocery store chain Meijer for ruthlessly timing employees on checkout time...

By Jason Turgeon: Amazon made some news at the end of last week when it announced that it will be redesigning its packaging and shipping...

By Jason Turgeon:It looks like the Lean + Green movement is gathering steam. In the last week, I've seen three pretty big efforts that...

By Jason Turgeon:Burt's Bees started out making natural beeswax lip balm back in the '80's and ended up making hundreds of other similar body-care...

By Jason Turgeon:Edie.net, which bills itself as "Europe's largest environmental website," for what it's worth, has a good article today on something it's calling...

By Jason Turgeon:This is a Lean-meets-EPA powerpoint. Download the original here. Click the little window emblem in the upper-right corner of the embedded image...

Stung by Soaring Transport Costs, Factories Bring Jobs Home Again - WSJ.comLean thinkers have long advocated the benefits of having a shorter supply chain...

As some of you know, I've been answering questions on lean in partnership with Bosch Rexroth both on their newsletter and through the recently...

By Jason Turgeon:This week is National Drinking Water Week! If that doesn't excite you, think about the Lean implications of this dreadful story about...

By Jason Turgeon:As a regular part of my job, I visit large industrial sites (mostly sewage treatment plants-yum!). This means that I have to...

By Jason Turgeon:Google made headlines last year when it announced it that it was going to devote a significant chunk of cash to developing...

By Jason Turgeon: China's everywhere in the news these days. It seems like you can't open a newspaper (or a feed reader) without reading...