Lean Six Sigma for Good Podcast

In this podcast, I share an interview I had with Steven Wilson, who runs Zoned Strategies consulting, and hosts the podcast show, ILC Radio. ILC stands for Iowa Lean Consortium, which is a nonprofit organization that promotes Lean, Six Sigma and process improvement within the state of Iowa and surrounding regions. I have been involved with them for a long time, including a workshop I co-led with Iowa State University CIRAS called “Lean and the Environment.” I welcome any feedback you have on my podcast. or you can rate my podcast on iTunes.

Links

ILC Radio #17 with Brion Hurley

Iowa Lean Consortium

Holly Duckworth and Andrea Hoffmeier from Sherpa Sustainability Institute

Lean and the Environment workshop videos (from 2012)

* Introduction – Part 1 of 3

* Green Wind Turbine Manufacturing Simulation – Part 2 of 3

* Dumpster Dive – Part 3 of 3

TRANSCRIPT

Brion (B): In this episode, I share an interview I did with Iowa Lean Consortium Radio, which is hosted by Steven Wilson who runs Zoned Strategies, a consulting firm and he hosts this podcast and interview for the Iowa Lean Consortium, a nonprofit organization that helps coordinate and promote Lean Six Sigma process improvement throughout the state of Iowa. I’ve been involved with the ILC for a couple of years. As early as 2012, I did a Lean Six Sigma in the Environment workshop (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) for them and that went really well. It was partnered with Iowa State CIRAS organization, Iowa State University. I have a video of those available; I’ll post those on the notes for this episode as well.

In this interview, we talk about the Lean Six Sigma for Good book, we talk about some of the nonprofit work I’m doing, and then also how we could incorporate environment and plan it into activities we’re doing and tie it to the real stakeholders that are affected by those issues. So, again, another interview I have, but hopefully, there’ll be something new you’ll take out of each of these interviews that isn’t just a repeat of the same thing. And then, hopefully, some of the things I’m saying, you’re hearing over and over again and it’ll start to sink in or maybe I say it in a different way that makes more sense to you or you might resonate with people you know more than the previous interviews I’ve done. So hopefully, you’re not getting bored of hearing me being interviewed, but I thought I would just share those anyways. Thanks for listening and talk to you later.

Announcer:  You’re listening to the ILC Radio Network brought to you by the Iowa Lean Consortium and Zone Strategies.

In this podcast, I share an example of how I led an effort at my former company to transition our Lean Six Sigma training material from printed booklets to paperless. I go through the calculations to print each booklet, and calculate the environmental footprint. I also discuss situations when students value the booklets, and how to make more sustainable booklets.

* Number of sheets per booklet = 354 @ $0.01 per sheet = $3.54

* Dividers for each module = 31 @ $0.25 per divider = $7.75

* 3 ring binder cost = $4.00

* Total cost per booklet = ~$15.00

* 20 students per class x $15 = $300 per class for booklets

* 20 student booklets = carbon impact equal to 80% of one tree

This price does not include labor for reproduction services or our time to coordinate and hand out booklets, color ink costs, or printer maintenance and storage space costs.

Below is a report of the carbon emissions and impact from one booklet, along with a link to the interview I mentioned.

Links

Gemba Academy (GA) episode #237 – Interview about going paperless

EnvironmentalPaper.org Calculation Summary

EnvironmentalPaper.org Paper Calculation website

In this podcast, I share an example of how I led an effort at my former company to transition our Lean Six Sigma training material from printed booklets to paperless. I go through the calculations to print each booklet, and calculate the environmental footprint. I also discuss situations when students value the booklets, and how to make more sustainable booklets.

* Number of sheets per booklet = 354 @ $0.01 per sheet = $3.54

* Dividers for each module = 31 @ $0.25 per divider = $7.75

* 3 ring binder cost = $4.00

* Total cost per booklet = ~$15.00

* 20 students per class x $15 = $300 per class for booklets

* 20 student booklets = carbon impact equal to 80% of one tree

This price does not include labor for reproduction services or our time to coordinate and hand out booklets, color ink costs, or printer maintenance and storage space costs.

Below is a report of the carbon emissions and impact from one booklet, along with a link to the interview I mentioned.

Links

Gemba Academy (GA) episode #237 – Interview about going paperless

EnvironmentalPaper.org Calculation Summary

EnvironmentalPaper.org Paper Calculation website

In this podcast, I share an interview I had with Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy. We discussed Lean Six Sigma and Sustainability (of course!).

We define sustainability for the audience to get them on the same page. They we talked about going paperless at work, the volunteer work with Lean Portland, and how people are incorporated into sustainability. I also talk about easy ways to get started.

Thanks to Ron for giving me the opportunity to speak on his podcast. It was quite an honor!

Links

Gemba Academy (GA) episode #237

In the interview, I also mentioned the other episodes they had published that you might find useful.

* GA 232 | How to Embrace the Higher Calling of Lean with Kevin Hancock

* GA 229: How to Run a Sustainable Organization with Dale and Dan Crownover (Texas Nameplate)

* GA 223: How to Apply Lean to the Government with Justin Kenney (Vermont)

* GA 218: How to Harness the Power of A3 Thinking with Captain Brad Brown

* GA 209: How to Address Poverty with Lean-Like Thinking with Jacob Stoller and Mauricio Miller

* GA 191: How to Reflect on the Roles of Fear and Love in Continuous Improvement with Renée Smith

* GA 031: Applying Lean Within the State of Washington with Hollie Jensen and Darrell Damron

* GA 024: Lean and Green with Keivan Zokaei

* GA 015: Lean Healthcare in Tanzania (CCBRT) with Mike Grogan (plus Gemba Live video)

* GA 010: Using Lean to Help NGOs with Steve Bell

TRANSCRIPT

Brion (B):  In this podcast, I share an interview I had with Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy. We discussed Lean Six Sigma and sustainability. First, we defined what sustainability was for the audience to get them on the same page, then we talked about going paperless at work and some of the benefits that may be harder to see initially but can really make it a very cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative.

I also talked about the volunteer work with Lean Portland,

In this podcast, I share an interview I had with Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy. We discussed Lean Six Sigma and Sustainability (of course!).

We define sustainability for the audience to get them on the same page. They we talked about going paperless at work, the volunteer work with Lean Portland, and how people are incorporated into sustainability. I also talk about easy ways to get started.

Thanks to Ron for giving me the opportunity to speak on his podcast. It was quite an honor!

Links

Gemba Academy (GA) episode #237

In the interview, I also mentioned the other episodes they had published that you might find useful.

* GA 232 | How to Embrace the Higher Calling of Lean with Kevin Hancock

* GA 229: How to Run a Sustainable Organization with Dale and Dan Crownover (Texas Nameplate)

* GA 223: How to Apply Lean to the Government with Justin Kenney (Vermont)

* GA 218: How to Harness the Power of A3 Thinking with Captain Brad Brown

* GA 209: How to Address Poverty with Lean-Like Thinking with Jacob Stoller and Mauricio Miller

* GA 191: How to Reflect on the Roles of Fear and Love in Continuous Improvement with Renée Smith

* GA 031: Applying Lean Within the State of Washington with Hollie Jensen and Darrell Damron

* GA 024: Lean and Green with Keivan Zokaei

* GA 015: Lean Healthcare in Tanzania (CCBRT) with Mike Grogan (plus Gemba Live video)

* GA 010: Using Lean to Help NGOs with Steve Bell

TRANSCRIPT

Brion (B):  In this podcast, I share an interview I had with Ron Pereira of Gemba Academy. We discussed Lean Six Sigma and sustainability. First, we defined what sustainability was for the audience to get them on the same page, then we talked about going paperless at work and some of the benefits that may be harder to see initially but can really make it a very cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative.

I also talked about the volunteer work with Lean Portland, of course,

Summary

In this podcast, I share my experience setting up and running an environmental event in Portland in mid-October, called the Zero Waste Conference

I discuss ways in which I applied Lean and Six Sigma concepts to the event, such as Lean Startup, Pareto charts, FMEA, forecasting and predictions on attendance, net promoter score (NPS), check-in area flow optimization, and customer feedback data.

I also share ways in which we made the event more sustainable. I discuss name tags, event agenda, tickets, food and drink, waste prevention and “pack in, pack out”

Links

* Zero Waste Conference

* Recycling Advocates

* Zero Waste PDX Facebook Group

* Tips and tricks for more efficient and effective PFMEAs

* Master Recycler Program

* Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) coffee cup reduction program

* Stumptown Media Group

Summary

In this podcast, I share my experience setting up and running an environmental event in Portland in mid-October, called the Zero Waste Conference

I discuss ways in which I applied Lean and Six Sigma concepts to the event, such as Lean Startup, Pareto charts, FMEA, forecasting and predictions on attendance, net promoter score (NPS), check-in area flow optimization, and customer feedback data.

I also share ways in which we made the event more sustainable. I discuss name tags, event agenda, tickets, food and drink, waste prevention and “pack in, pack out”

Links

* Zero Waste Conference

* Recycling Advocates

* Zero Waste PDX Facebook Group

* Conscious by Chloe

* Tips and tricks for more efficient and effective PFMEAs

* Master Recycler Program

* Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) coffee cup reduction program

* Stumptown Media Group

Transcript

In this episode, I talk about a zero waste conference I helped set up for the nonprofit I run, Recycling Advocates. The conference was really about trying to bring people together to educate them around how they can apply zero waste principles to their life and also a little bit around how zero waste is being applied to business. We decided to put on a conference as a fundraiser for the nonprofit organization and also start to build the network of people who are really taking on this zero waste lifestyle. It’s really gaining a lot of traction, especially here in Portland.

I just want to talk about how I took some of the Lean Six Sigma concepts and applied it to this conference. This is probably the first conference I’ve really put on of decent size. We had like 100 people there, so it was more than just a training or a meeting and so a little nervous about how this would work out, but just wanted to share with you some of the examples and things we went through and what I learned from that.

The first thing that we end up doing with the conference was figuring out if there was interest. We went into the event with some knowledge that there was some interest. And this is, we, I’m talking about a woman named Chloe (Lepeltier), who I had met through some other environmental education programs and she had done a little bit of work for the nonprofit around our Bring Your Own Cup campaign. She has set up a Facebook group around Zero Waste Portland, called Zero Waste PDX, and I’ll put links to these topics and groups in the show notes.

She had done a lot of work and built up a really good network of people. Part of the Recycling Advocates nonprofit I run is really trying to figure out where do we go from just the recycling discussion and how do we get ahead of this discussion around recycling and start to get into waste minimization and prevention, which is something that’s always key in terms of process improvement – how do we get ahead of problems, avoid them in the first place. Recycling is considered kind of the end of the value stream. It’s, “Okay,

Summary

In this podcast, I share a presentation I gave at the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) Sustainability Symposium back in January 27. 2017. I was still working at Rockwell Collins at the time. I discuss how Lean and Six Sigma techniques have been used for sustainability initiatives, as well as with Lean Portland and nonprofit organizations. It’s a short presentation only 10 minutes long, but I pack a lot of information in that time. Thanks to Kim Smith, Executive Director of GPSEN. She was the MC for the event, and introduces me at the beginning.

Links

* YouTube Video Presentation

* GPSEN

* Lean Portland

* Rockwell Collins

* International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP)

Summary

In this podcast, I share a presentation I gave at the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) Sustainability Symposium back in January 27. 2017. I was still working at Rockwell Collins at the time. I discuss how Lean and Six Sigma techniques have been used for sustainability initiatives, as well as with Lean Portland and nonprofit organizations. It’s a short presentation only 10 minutes long, but I pack a lot of information in that time. Thanks to Kim Smith, Executive Director of GPSEN. She was the MC for the event, and introduces me at the beginning.

Links

* YouTube Video Presentation

* GPSEN

* Lean Portland

* Rockwell Collins

* International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP)

Summary

In this podcast, I share a recent interview I had with Aaron Spearin on his e6s Methods podcast. We discuss my book, “Lean Six Sigma for Good,” the accompanying website, and I update him on my recent job change, along with my sustainability efforts. This is the 3rd interview with him, and it is almost 90 minutes long. I really appreciate the support he has given to my work over the years. To learn more about Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management and Design Thinking, subscribe to his podcast at the links below.

Links

* Previous e6s Methods podcast appearances:

* Episode 10: Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

* Episode 13: Greening your Lean Events

* Subscribe to e6s Methods podcast

* Lean Six Sigma for Good – Free book download