Lean Roundup #199 – December 2025
- Lean Roundup
- December 29, 2025

A couple of months ago I mentioned Toyota’s new challenge called Ideas for Good. The idea was to take Toyota’s technology to solve a problem to make our world a better place like this idea to help during natural disasters. They have picked the 25 finalist, 5 from each technology category, from all the
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On Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
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Continuing this weeks discussion a Lean and Green has brought me to another resources for reducing energy at the work place. Energy Star has created an environmental challenge for organizations across the country. The ENERGY STAR Challenge is a national call-to-action to improve the energy efficiency of America’s commercial and industrial buildings by 10 percent or
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This Friday (April 22, 2011) is Earth Day so I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the synergy of Lean and Green efforts and techniques to mutually eliminate waste. This combination of thinking can help you make everyday Earth day in your organization. Here is a portion of a popular article I wrote about a year
READ MOREHave you been to a meeting lately that seemed to take forever, drifted off the original objectives and agenda, and left you none the wiser of what was really achieved? By applying Lean thinking you will never have to have that experience again. Lean meetings give Structure, visibility and with a little discipline have the ability
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Green and Lean should be synergistic not just additive or complementary concepts. The integrated whole of both methodologies is often greater than the sum of the impacts from each approach. The tools in the toolkit for Green and Lean improvements are one in the same. They include techniques like value stream mapping, workplace organization and
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