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    Claus Schafhalter is executive level Management Consultant and owner of Sunogos - Change for the Better


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    Lean Means Sustainability — Step 5 — Control

    Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

    Con­trol — step 5 of the Six Sigma DMAIC process — ensures that improve­ments are sustained.

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    The 2000 Watt Society

    Thursday, September 30th, 2010

    Cur­rently each Ger­man uses 6000 Watts of energy around the clock. Researcher pro­vide tar­gets to reduce energy con­sump­tion to 2000 Watts around the clock. But this objec­tive can­not be accom­plished eas­ily and is not nec­es­sary, if and when we switch away from fos­sil fuels to renew­able energy sources.

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    Will Wind Become Competitive?

    Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

    There are many wind energy projects under way world wide. But the cost of wind energy is still not com­pet­i­tive with the cur­rent cost of energy pro­duced by fos­sil fuels. Envi­ron­men­tal costs are still not accounted for.

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    When We Measure The Wrong Things

    Monday, July 19th, 2010

    GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.

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    Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050

    Thursday, July 8th, 2010

    A new study issued by the Ger­man “Umwelt­bun­de­samt” comes to the con­clu­sion that Ger­many should be able to switch energy pro­duc­tion to 100% renew­able sources within 40 years. Inter­est­ingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flas­barth, states that this is doable with tech­nol­ogy that is avail­able today. Build­ing the nec­es­sary infra­struc­ture would need deci­sive action […]

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