The W. Edwards Deming Institute This has to be the best title for a seminar ever: How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business(Many Organizations Do It, But Do You Know How You Do It?) The Deming…
By Jason Turgeon: In my first post a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the tension between what I called “new” and “old” environmentalism. Not that I had expected to be the first to notice this tension, but I…
By Jason Turgeon: Introductions: I’m Jason Turgeon, the newest addition to the Lean Blog team. Mark and I have had an email dialog going for a few months about the intersection of green and lean, and he’s invited me to…
A New Year’s Greeting from Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe Interesting message. Does anyone have comparisons of any “year ahead” messages from other automakers? It’s refreshing to read something from an auto executive who isn’t whining, making excuses, or blaming outside…
Xerox’s Reusable Paper (TreeHugger) I saw this featured in Time as one of their inventions of the year. I’ve seen “digital paper” before, but this is a concept where you can print and then easily erase the paper for re-use.…
Digital50: USAEC News and more Business News Here’s another success story from the U.S. Army’s Lean Six Sigma program, increasing production to support troops in Iraq: “When the call came in to deliver the door kits we were experiencing production…
Two Buck Chuck still making waves – Yahoo! News Wine making is still a very non-level process… those darn grapes only ripen once a year! That’s not what this is about. Anyway, one item jumped out in this article about…
Lean and the Environment | EPA Has anyone heard about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pushing Lean for environmental/conservation purposes? Interesting idea. The EPA website has a lot of basic info about Lean, their summary of Lean is: “Lean manufacturing…
MySA.com: Business: Following up on the Lean and Green theme, from the new San Antonio Toyota plant: “‘Muda’ is the Japanese term for waste. Toyota does not believe in muda, which is why San Antonio’s plant is so clean and…
BeliefWatch: God Is Green – Newsweek Beliefs – MSNBC.com This article struck me today, not exactly like a lightning bolt from the sky, but it struck me. The Newsweek article talks about a growing movement among a number of churches,…
Global shipping must curb ‘unchecked’ pollution: study – Yahoo! News Here’s yet another reason to consider keeping production close to your customers and using Lean production methods: the environment. Ocean-going vessels now belch out more of the major air pollutant…
Sir Richard Branson: Making the Skies Green – Enterprise Management – MSNBC.com Thanks to blog reader Marc for sending this my way. He points out the parallel between waste elimination (a typical lean concept) and the environmental push to reduce…
