From Campus Tug-of-War to Pulling Together: Using the Lean Approach

"Applying the 'lean approach' can yield surprising benefits to facilities professionals dealing with accomplishing more with fewer resources, while managing stakeholders with competing interests": That's how Facilities Manager describes this new article. (PDF) This is a thought-provoking article in a number of ways, one of which is that one could argue that the "Lean" approach to planning could be seen as "sustainability" but with a different phraseology; and it certainly is a form of integrated planning.