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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 […]

Motion Sensors For Mice

Two Ger­man inven­tors intro­duced a new kind of motion sen­sor to the mar­ket. These micro-vibration sen­sors detect motions or vibra­tions and can be inte­grated into many bat­tery pow­ered devices like wire­less PC mice, remote con­trols, or lights for bicy­cles. The sen­sor inter­rupts the con­nec­tion to the bat­ter­ies as soon as the device is not in […]

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 […]