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  • Bring Your Green to Work

    Bring Your Green to Work0

    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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  • Lean and Green Reduces WASTE

    Lean and Green Reduces WASTE0

    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

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  • Lean Meetings: A Better Way

    Lean Meetings: A Better Way0

    Have 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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  • 4 Essential Green Gadgets for Your Lean Kaizen

    4 Essential Green Gadgets for Your Lean Kaizen0

    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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  • Lean Quote: Fear as a Motivator0

    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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  • Free Lean, a site worth visiting

    Free Lean, a site worth visiting0

    What do you get when you combine free and Lean?  Well, the FreeLeanSite.com. Jay Watson is the Lean thinker behind this site. It grew from a passion of implementing Lean on the shop floor at companies like Motorola, Honeywell, and General Electric. He started the site to make “lean thinking” concepts of continuous improvement highly

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