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There Is An App For That

In an ear­lier blog entry I was mus­ing if cor­po­ra­tions gain ben­e­fits if they are act­ing respon­si­bly and in a sus­tain­able way. Being lean reduces waste and saves money, so there you have it. How­ever, another poten­tial big ben­e­fit would be to dif­fer­en­ti­ate one­self as the greener com­pany, let the con­sumer know about it, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lean Means Sustainability – Step 2 – Measure

Ear­lier I wrote how to start a lean sus­tain­abil­ity ini­tia­tive by defin­ing objec­tives and frame­work. Step 2 of the DMAIC cycle is “Mea­sure”. It sounds obvi­ous that we need to know where we are before we know in which direc­tion we need to go. By mea­sur­ing we are try­ing to under­stand where we are, and […]

Litter

Last week­end my kids tried to count the pieces of lit­ter they spot­ted while we were dri­ving down 280 from San Fran­cisco to San Jose. They counted at a fran­tic pace, but had to give up pretty soon: There were way too many pieces of garbage. Back at home they did a quick we web-research […]