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Lean Means Sustainability – Step 3 – Analyze

In ear­lier posts I wrote about “Define” and “Mea­sure” as part of Six Sigma’s DMAIC cycle. Step 3 is “Ana­lyze”, the “A” in DMAIC. The intend of this step is to under­stand what causes the prob­lem defined in step 1 – “Define”. Let’s assume we char­ac­ter­ized our prob­lem that we spend too much energy in […]

London – Beijing In Two Days – By Train!

China is actively plan­ning a high speed rail con­nec­tion to Europe. This impres­sive infra-structure invest­ment would be financed by China’s huge trade sur­plus, while coun­tries con­nected by the new line would pay prefer­ably deliv­er­ing nat­ural resources to China’s hun­gry man­u­fac­tur­ing plants. As it is planned right now, the high speed rail line would link China, […]

Opportunities For Innovations

Talk­ing to start-up con­sul­tants and Angel investors in the Val­ley I got the impres­sion that lots of money is look­ing for invest­ments into green tech­nolo­gies. Of course this is noth­ing new as fuel cell tech­nolo­gies, bio-fuels from algae, and solar invest­ments have been a sta­ple of Sil­i­con Val­ley over the last few years. But it […]

Paperless Health Care

The other day I had my annual appoint­ment with the optometrist. It was the first time that I vis­ited this par­tic­u­lar one, so as a new patient I was asked to fill out patient infor­ma­tion forms and med­ical his­tory forms. I do not like to fill out forms man­u­ally, but there was no choice. I […]

Red China Turns Green?

China’s com­mu­nist gov­ern­ment announced in its lat­est 10-year plan a tar­get to pro­duce 15% of the country’s energy demand using “clean” tech­nolo­gies. As China is grow­ing rapidly energy con­sump­tion is believed to increase sub­stan­tially. The major source for elec­tric power is coal, about 65% of elec­tric­ity comes from coal fired power plants. Hydro pro­vides about […]