Lean Sustainability

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER – What is good for our planet is good for business

• Home
• About
• Resources

Tools & Methodologies

Lean Means Sustainability – Step 1 — Define

Increas­ing effi­ciency is the name of the game. The objec­tive is to reduce waste and get more value into the prod­uct. Thus improv­ing prof­its and decreas­ing envi­ron­men­tal impacts. Lean Man­age­ment, Six Sigma and other man­age­ment philoso­phies offer tools to get sus­tain­abil­ity efforts right. For instance, Six Sigma offers DMAIC – Define, Mea­sure, Ana­lyze, Improve, Control. […]

There Is No Green Strategy

Some of my con­sult­ing col­leagues want to sell you a green strat­egy. Your orga­ni­za­tion needs to get more envi­ron­men­tally friendly, so they say, and the first step is devel­op­ing a green strat­egy. Well, not so. See, if you develop another strat­egy tar­get­ing green chal­lenges how will it fit into your over­all busi­ness strat­egy? Or will […]