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There seems to be a gap in the connection between Lean and it's ability to produce great returns in regard to our impact on the environment. A quick Google search proves that there is a limited amount of information on the subject. However, after a bit of digging I was able to come up with a few examples:

The US Environmental Protection Agency has a portion of their website (http://www.epa.gov/lean/environment/studies/index.htm) devoted to highlighting case studies where implementing Lean practices have had outstanding positive impacts on the environments. These examples, such as General Motors reducing air emissions and eliminating solid waste or Boeing eliminating excess packaging materials from their air plane production are huge wins not only for the companies and their pocketbooks but also for the environment and future generations.

UPS's Right Turn Policy (http://pressroom.ups.com/About...&srch_phr=right+turn), while may not have been created under the 'Lean' label, used many of the same core principles to increase the profitability of the company. This is a great example of how saving a company money in terms of driver time and fuel charges also resulted in lower fuel consumption and reduced C02 emissions!

While it is often easier to see the ROI created by applying Lean to manufacturing (reduce labor, operational efficiency etc), we often forget to consider the impact outside of the four walls of the Gemba.

How can we leverage the Lean tools to help us change the direction our world is going?

Small changes. Big Impact. ]]> http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6624 2013-04-02T10:17:04 -05.00 JuliaAnderson 6
Any views? ]]> http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6606 2013-03-14T14:59:11 -05.00 JHuber 8
Any experiences or lessons learned about what has worked or hasn't worked for you in past would be much appreciated. Thanks! ]]> http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6588 2013-02-26T14:31:37 -05.00 PortWes 4 http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6376 2012-08-09T10:34:54 -05.00 Martin42 10
We've started a Lean Programme in our Council, so far we've had success with what we've worked on.

One of the services we've begun to provide is VSM; we've done a couple of as is maps and they've highlighted areas that could potentially reap a lot of rewards.

Off the back of this I've been given the "Creating continuous flow" book to study and to be honest I'm having a hard time with it. I've looked up the term pacemaker and I just don't get it, what's it for? Or probably more importantly, does it have any place outside of manafacturing?

Given that the work we produce is service based, do I need to know about it?

I understand that not all of Lean can be transferred to services, but some of the theory can of course, but I've got no experts here to ask about it, please can you help?

Many thanks,

Martin ]]> http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6291 2012-05-07T10:58:56 -05.00 leehutchinson 1 http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6224 2012-03-16T14:40:41 -05.00 edwinwalker 2 You might be scratching your head thinking about lean in the electoral process. The VOC or Voice of the Customer is critical to the survival of most companies and with the pace of change in today's economy they cannot only rely on past knowledge. The VOC enables companies to.
Make decisions on product and services
Identify customer satisfaction drivers
Focus and improvement plans and product specs
Develop baseline metrics.
One of the most important lean wastes is the Knowledge Disconnection. Another definition of waste is a failure to use something wisely, properly, fully, or to good effect.
For those with a background in Lean and Six Sigma, think about the house of quality or QFD, the structure of the quality function deployment identify the key variables and collect enough data to improve the effectiveness of any electorate team.
An electoral team has to make the necessary efforts to understand why their voters and potential voters want to vote for them. The electorate team has to identify each customer constituency and rigorously collect customer data. This data includes competitive analysis, surveys, DOE to its full scale to understand the factors that count and more importantly what cable news and programs they subscribe to and watch.
Imagine a population spread of prospective voters.
At your left you have prospective voters who do not understand, perceived or care for the message presented to them, unless there are the ones running for office and they are vying to get benefits, your efforts on these voters would be a waste of time, money and resources.
At the middle left you begin to find prospects that are thinking about the message but need more information. This population is the one influenced by peers, coworkers, or by effective marketing communication because they are on the edge, in politics they are called the semi-independents, most of the voters in this area are more likely to be in the vertical thinker's category in other words they have an analytical or logical process of thinking that results in fewer answers.
As you move to the middle right you encounter the potential favorable voters, they are really searching for a reason to give that vote in favor but there are not readily available yet. The message to them needs to be customized including a differentiation and factual educational analysis.
And at your right you find the electorate elective, these are voters who are ready to decisively vote in the electoral teams favor. These are voters whose the message are tailored to while they are in the electorate elective mode.
Finding ways to use Lean, Six Sigma and Blue Ocean Strategy best practices is evolving. Challenging conventional wisdom is a learned skill that needs to be adopted. Want more infor email me at edwinwalker@hotmail.com ]]> http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6203 2012-03-06T13:20:14 -05.00 JohnPod 1 http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6169 2012-02-06T11:21:53 -05.00 Andrei 2 http://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=83&threadid=6095 2011-12-05T17:27:16 -05.00 259028 19
So could you help me to get some sources and value (%). It will help me to do my presentation.

Thanks

Guy ]]>