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Lean Means Sustainability — Step 5 — Control

Con­trol — step 5 of the Six Sigma DMAIC process — ensures that improve­ments are sustained.

Does “Green” Sell?

It is hard to see a direct con­nec­tion between sales suc­cess and “green­ness” of a com­pany. Low ranked com­pa­nies in Greenpeace’s “Guide to greener elec­tron­ics” are def­i­nitely sell­ing well, as do top ranked Nokia, Sam­sung or HP.

Low Sustainability Ratings For Oil And Gas Corporations

An Oekom Study look­ing at 27 lead­ing oil and gas cor­po­ra­tions rates orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing their sus­tain­abil­ity. The study’s authors granted that cor­po­ra­tions try to do the right things, how­ever over­all their activ­i­ties are not focused enough and lack tan­gi­ble results. On a scale from A+ to D-, the small Aus­trian com­pany OMV ranked first with […]

Lean Means Sustainability — Step 4 — Improve

In 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. […]

Walmart’s Impact (3)

Wal­mart, the largest US-retailer, makes another move to get more sus­tain­able. This time the tar­gets are spe­cific pop­u­lar prod­uct cat­e­gories and their sup­pli­ers. Sup­pli­ers are asked to exam­ine and reduce their car­bon foot­print by using less energy, less pack­ag­ing, more effi­cient processes, etc. It sounds good and it is good, at least in my opinion. […]