Lean Means Sustainability — Step 5 — Control
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010Control — step 5 of the Six Sigma DMAIC process — ensures that improvements are sustained.
When We Measure The Wrong Things
Monday, July 19th, 2010GDP 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.
Lean Means Sustainability — Step 4 — Improve
Monday, June 21st, 2010In earlier posts I wrote about “Define”, “Measure” and “Analyze” as part of Lean Six Sigma’s DMAIC cycle. The example I used in these previous posts showed that our office is not energy efficient, and we also analyzed where and why. Remember, the most important results of the Analysis phase are well determined problem causes. […]
You Can’t Control What You Can’t Measure
Friday, May 14th, 2010I am still concerned about what’s going on with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Previous estimates were that 800,000l oil spill into the sea every day. Some scientists come to the conclusion that it is more likely to be 10 times more! It seems to be consensus that right now nobody knows […]
Setting Goals Not Methods
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010In a press release today Google is said to lead the charge against tougher energy efficiency standards for data centers. Google? Is this not the company touting green initiatives and trying to not be evil? It is worth to dig a little deeper into this issue. Data centers house tons of heat producing computer equipment, and […]
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