Lean Six Sigma for Good Podcast

Summary

On this podcast, I share a presentation I did on the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference in Orlando in May 2018. The presentation was called Process Improvement for Social Responsibility and it was with myself and Billy Ingram, who works at Interface in the Lean Development Group. We both went through a training program with the Sherpa Sustainability Institute. Within that program, we talk in the presentation around this methodology called Continual Improvement for Social Responsibility (CISR). That program is like a Six Sigma for social responsibility. It uses a model similar to the DMAIC model, something called SOFAIR. In the presentation, I walk through those steps and explain that.

The presentation is around 45 minutes long. The slides will be available in the show notes, as well as you can go right to the YouTube video and watch the presentation with the slides. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Links

* Video Presentation

* Slides from presentation

* Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)

* Sherpa Sustainability Institute

* Interface

* Billy Ingram LinkedIn

* Billy Ingram Personal Page

Transcript

Billy (BI):  If you have any questions, please hold it to the end. I want to make sure everybody has a chance.

Brion (BH): Good morning. Thanks for coming out. It’s the last day of the conference, 8 o’clock. It’s almost as bad as the three something presentations this afternoon, so not the worst spot.

BI:  Don’t we know that the dedicated people are to sustainable development.

Male Audience Member:  Don’t redeem any favors.

BH:  We’re going to talk about process improvement for social responsibility, so really trying to apply these concepts of Lean, Six Sigma, quality improvement around social responsibility issues. Billy and I will talk about some of the work we’ve done around this initiative that we think is pretty cool and wanted to share with you guys.

BI:  My name is Billy Ingram. I think you all already knew that, everybody here did.

I’ve been working with Lean sustainability principles for a long time. I came out of the textile industry, went through automotive, spent about 7 or 8 years there. I learned a lot of Lean and Six Sigma, cut my teeth, and I tried to find a job to do. I tried to get out of there as fast as I could. So anyway, I joined Interface in ’97 as an industrial engineer. I’d like to speak about sustainable design and social responsibility.

I love to learn. I do a lot of opportunistic type of improvement and innovation around carpet manufacturing, which is the industry that I’m in and I’m very passionate about individual engagement. If you want to know more about me or check out my social channels, you can check me out on about.me.

BH:  Have you got an IE degree?

Summary

In this podcast, I share a video taken at the 2017 GoGreen Conference held in Portland last October. The presentation talked about how Lean concepts can be used to address the people and planet side of sustainability. I co-presented with Matt Horvat, the founder of our nonprofit volunteering group called Lean Portland. We show a great video from Toyota about applying lean to a nonprofit, talk about the culture of engaging people, discuss the 8 forms of waste (reduced to 3 for simplicity) and practice identifying waste while watching a pizza making video. We also share some examples of work we’ve done with some local nonprofits and then open it up for Q&A.

Links

* Video Presentation

* GoGreen Conference – Portland

* Toyota Meals per Hour – Video #1

* How to Make a Papa John’s Pizza – Video #2

* Lean Portland

 

Summary

In this podcast, I share a presentation about the employee-led improvements taking place at reuse nonprofit organizations Free Geek and The Rebuilding Center, with coaching and assistance from Lean Portland, a volunteer Benefit company of Lean consultants in Portland, Oregon. Free Geek is working on a daily management system and trying to increase the number of laptops they are processing each month. The Rebuilding Center has implemented changes to better process hardware donations for volunteers and staff. The presentation was given at the Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR) Spring Forum on Reuse Systems and Organizations in Action on March 21, 2018 in Portland, Oregon. Speakers were Matt Horvat and Brion Hurley (Lean Portland), John Ashcraft (Free Geek) and Mike Alfoni (The Rebuilding Center).

Links

* Video of Presentation

* Lean Portland: https://leanportland.com/

* Free Geek: https://www.freegeek.org/

* The Rebuilding Center: https://www.rebuildingcenter.org/

* Association of Oregon Recyclers: http://oregonrecyclers.org/

* Business Performance Improvement: http://www.biz-pi.com

* Recycling Advocates: http://www.recyclingadvocates.org

Summary

In this podcast, I talk with Kelly Singer. She works at Institut Lean France and she started a group called Lean Green Institute. I talk to her about her experiences starting out in the US. She started in Eastern Washington, moved over to Seattle, and spent some time in Los Angeles, then went over to Paris, France a couple years ago, where she set up the Lean Green Institute.

We discuss the differences between Europe and the US and their sustainability initiatives, and her experiences, and how she sees the connection between “Lean and Green” as such a pivotal way of helping organizations achieve their corporate social responsibility. We also talk some nonprofit work she had done in the past, along my experiences and some of the things I’ve been working on.

I think you’ll really enjoy this interview.

Links

* Kelly Singer LinkedIn Profile

* Institut Lean France

* Lean Green Institute

* Lean Green Day – Steve Hope Toyota Presentation (English)

* Point B Consulting

* The Machine That Changed the World by Dan Jones and James Womack

* Lean Thinking by Dan Jones and James Womack

* Lean Strategy by Dan Jones and Michael Balle

* Dan Jones Profile

Summary

In this podcast, I recap this year and the things I discussed in podcasts. Topics ranged from reducing hours at work, leaving my job, transitioning into consulting, getting an office, hosting free workshops, discussing wasted food, book release, and more volunteering with Lean Portland. I also talk about some upcoming activities and projects in 2018.

To access the previous podcast episodes, go to http://leansixsigmaenvironment.org/index.php/category/podcast/

 

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Summary

In this podcast, I release the audio version of my new book titled “Lean Six Sigma for Good: How improvement experts can help people in need, and help improve the environment”

This book was written to motivate process improvement experts to get more involved with social and environmental issues in their community through nonprofit volunteering of your skills.

You can listen to the entire book in less than an hour. You can also buy it from Audible for under $3.

If you want to download the digital version (PDF, ePub, Mobi or web-version), visit the site at: https://leanpub.com/leansixsigmaforgood/

For paperback versions, you can order from my website at BPI (preferred) or Amazon

Summary

In this podcast, I share my thoughts on a recent book called “Drawdown” by Paul Hawken, which explains “the 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world.”

I discuss a few of the top solutions, and how I am supporting them. The book covers many different solutions, so I copied the table of contents for your review.

The major categories are:

* Energy

* Food

* Women and Girls

* Building and Cities

* Land Use

* Transport

* Materials

* Coming Attractions

Links

* Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken

* Project Drawdown Website

The Top 10 list

* Refrigeration Management

* Wind Turbines (onshore)

* Reduced Food Waste

* Plant-rich Diet

* Tropical Forests

* Educating Girls

* Family Planning

* Solar Farms

* Silvopasture

* Rooftop Solar

* Podcast #22: Lean Six Sigma and Wasted Food workshop

* Podcast #20: Lean Six Sigma and Wasted Food

* Solar Production on my Florida home

* Everybody Solar donations from BPI

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Summary

On this podcast, I share my experiences with leaving my corporate job and moving into full-time consulting. I haven’t had a podcast episode in a few months, so I wanted to give an update to everyone on what I’ve been doing, and how I’ve been transitioning into working for myself.

Links

* Business Performance Improvement (BPI) – my consulting website

* LeanSixSigmaforGood.com

* Hatch Innovation Lab

* WASTE Walk Challenge (Episode #11)

* Port of Portland Wasted Food presentation

* Kjell Van Zoen

* Lean Portland

Transcript

It’s been awhile since I’ve last recorded a podcast, so I thought I’d give you guys an update on what’s going on. I’ve got a couple other topics I’m going to go through in my future podcasts, but I got a lot of info to share, and some of you expressed some interest in following my journey going from a long time corporate job to my own consulting. I thought I’d give you an update, and if you are not interested in that, you can fast forward and wait for the next one. So in July, end of July, I left my job at Rockwell Collins after 18 years. It was a great experience, I loved working there, loved the work and the people. I learned to so much there, and it was an awesome experience.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been wanting to go out on my own for a while, and I just kept getting more interest in the Portland area, on topics that I was really passionate about, and really excited me. I gradually started to work my way out of there.

I had enough other activity going on with some training opportunities that came up that I was able to make that transition. Basically, I’m doing some training for another consulting company SixSigma.US, and that’s been a good transition out of full time employment to cover bills. It’s also be really great to get out and teach and talk to a lot of different businesses, a lot of different organizations, and kind of get into a different mode than what I’ve been used to. I’ve had some experiences outside of aerospace, but this has definitely opened up my eyes a lot more, and given me more things to consider and talk about (in terms of processes), and how lean and six sigma apply. So that’s been going well, I’ve been keeping busy with that. I’ve also been trying to build up some work locally, so I can start to pursue all the things we’ve been talking about with other organizations in terms of reducing environmental impacts, and trying to get people who have these skills to go and volunteer and help out these nonprofits, and other organizations that need the help.

I’ve been putting on quite a few free workshops, and I broke them up into 3-hour buckets. Some are just generic tool training around lean and six sigma, and then I got some around lean and green. I’ve also been partnering up with Kjell van Zoen, who you saw in

Summary

On this podcast, I share my experiences with owning an electric vehicle. There are many advantages, but also some disadvantages. Hopefully I can shed some light for you, as there may be confusion about whether it’s a good option for you.

From a lean perspective, I talk about the DOE I conducted on the battery life, the employee engagement from our Electric Vehicle Show-and-Tell, and the concept of total cost of ownership.

Summary

On this podcast, I share the actual audio from the “Reducing Food Waste Workshop: A Lean and Six Sigma Approach” given on April 28th, 2017, hosted by the Port of Portland, which is located at the Portland International Airport (PDX).

I mentioned this workshop in Podcast #20, if you want to hear the background on how this workshop came together, along with my thoughts on the workshop.

If you prefer, you can watch the video from the workshop below (includes videos heard in podcast)…

Links

* Port of Portland

* Kjell Van Zoen