Management – Page 6 – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

E073: Reuse Organization Performance Metrics with Chris Pletcher

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Posted on August 23, 2020June 11, 2022
Posted in Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Solid Waste, Volunteering

Chris Pletcher is the Business Developer (and “Jack of all trades”) at Finger Lakes ReUse. I met him at the 2019 Build Reuse conference in Pittsburgh, PA and saw a presentation he gave about the metrics and data he uses at the reuse store to improve sales and manage expenses. We had a lengthy discussion

E072: Food Systems Projects Between Schools and Nonprofits

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Posted on August 15, 2020December 7, 2020
Posted in Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Volunteering

For the 2020-2021 year, I am the President of the IISE Sustainable Development Division. The mission of the group is to help align Industrial and Systems Engineers with organizations working on the UN Sustainable Development goals. This is the 2nd interview we’ve done this year, the first one was with Bradley Miller from the University

E071: Interview with Brad Miller from University of Houston

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Posted on July 19, 2020July 26, 2020
Posted in Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Volunteering

In this podcast, I interview Brad Miller, who is Senior Professor of Practice in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, and teaches courses in Supply Chain Management. He shares his success with teaching students how to apply lean and Six Sigma methods in their homes and at their part-time jobs, including

E070: Interview with Tim Turner with CQPO

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Posted on June 13, 2020June 21, 2020
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Volunteering

In this podcast, I interview Tim Turner, who used to work at Toyota in Kentucky (TMMK) for 22 years, and has done a lot of work with nonprofits and not-for-profit organizations. He was also a co-author on Volume 2 of the Lean Six Sigma for Good book series (still in process, but available for download),

E069: Interview with LSS Master Black Belt Amanda Zimmerman

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Posted on May 20, 2020March 14, 2021
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Pollutants

In this podcast, I interviewed Amanda Zimmerman, a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt here in Portland, who has a wide and extensive background. We worked together briefly at a local not-for-profit, and have stayed connected for the past few years. She talks about her journey from history major to learning about Six Sigma, her

E066: IISE Podcast Interview with Liz McCartney about Disaster Recovery

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Posted on April 16, 2020February 16, 2022
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast, Solid Waste, Volunteering

In this podcast, I repost an interview I had with Liz McCartney, Executive Director of St Bernard Project (SBP), a nonprofit organization she founded with her husband Zack Rosenberg to rebuild homes and help victims recover from natural disasters. They moved from DC to New Orleans to help out after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005,

E065: Book Review – Why Governments Don’t Think They Make Widgets

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Posted on April 12, 2020April 27, 2021
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Podcast

In this podcast, I read a book review I wrote recently about the book “We Don’t Make Widgets” written by Ken Miller. His book discusses the challenges and myths of process improvement in Government. Links Ken Miller Bio Examples of Lean Six Sigma in Government Books We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths That Keep

Getting Green in the Lean Conversation

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Posted on March 28, 2017March 23, 2020
Posted in Employee Engagement, Management

This article was originally posted in the Lean Green Institute website by Sasha Neser. If you were to think of ‘lean’ as a pair of glasses you wear to view the potential to increase value and engage the people in your organisation, then ‘green’ is the same pair of glasses with a slightly different tint

Boeing Solid Waste to Landfill Sorting Event (Dumpster Dive) at Everett from April 2015

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Posted on May 16, 2015May 16, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Solid Waste

This video was posted on the Boeing website in 2015 to share a trash (waste) sort event at their Everett facility with their 747, 767, 777 and 787 production lines. The goal was to collect data and determine which team is diverting the most trash from the landfill. The winning team was the 777 program,

“Creating a Lean and Green Business System” earns 2014 Shingo Prize

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Posted on April 14, 2014May 27, 2024
Posted in Book Review, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management

The Shingo Institute has awarded Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood and Peter Hines with the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for their work “Creating a Lean and Green Business: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability.” Creating a Lean and Green Business System is an excellent book that demonstrates the close link between eliminating