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Creating a Lean and Green Business System

Autor Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood, Peter Hines
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2013
Things that are good for the planet are also good for business. Numerous studies from the likes of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Harvard, MIT Sloan, and others indicate that organizations that commit to goals of zero waste, zero harmful emissions, and zero use of nonrenewable resources clearly outperform their competition.

Like lean thinking, greening your business is not just a ‘nice to have’; at least not anymore. It is now a key economic driver for many forward looking firms. This book is packed with case studies and examples that illustrate how leading firms use lean and green as simultaneous sources of inspiration in various sectors of industry - from automotive and retail to textile and brewing. Take Toyota as an example, the holy grail of economic efficiency for decades. This book, shows that Toyota tops the green chart too, describing Toyota’s notion of Monozukuri: sustainable manufacturing.

Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability offers opportunities for innovation that can simultaneously reduce dependence on natural resources and enhance global prosperity. It explores less understood aspects of lean and green ߝ discussing their evolution independently as well as the opportunities that exist in their integration, highlighting the importance of a cultural shift across the whole company.

Outlining a systematic way to eliminate harmful waste while generating green value, the book explains how to:
  • Become economically successful and environmentally sustainable by adopting the lean and green business system model
  • Adopt a systematic approach to become lean and green, and develop your own roadmap to success
  • Use the cutting edge tools, techniques, and methodologies developed by the authors
  • Translate the techniques and culture that underpin lean into environmental improvements
Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability supplies a new way of thinking that will allow you to boost improvement efforts and create a positively charged work environment ߝ while contributing to the long-term well-being of the environment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781466571129
ISBN-10: 1466571128
Pagini: 253
Ilustrații: 42 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 175 x 251 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: PRODUCTIVITY PR INC

Cuprins

Foreword by Jonathon Porritt
Foreword by Doc Hall

WHY LEAN AND GREEN?
Introduction
Creating Leaner and Greener Companies
Moving to a Leaner and Greener Economy
Chapter-by-Chapter Overview

Need for Green Business Practices in an Economic Downturn
Transforming Our Economy
Endnotes

Lean and Green: Principles and Strategies
What Is Lean and Why Is It Green?
Sustainability and the Case for Lean and Green
Evolution of Corporate Sustainability Thinking
Integrating Lean and Green
Endnotes
CREATING A LEANAND GREEN BUSINESS SYSTEM

Lean and Green Business Process Management
Suite of Tools for Lean and Green Process Management
Interview with Mr. Steve Hope
General Manager, Environmental Affairs and Corporate Citizenship, Toyota Motor Europe
Lean and Green at Toyota Motor Company
A Brief History
Learning from the Toyota Way
Toyota’s Environmental Performance
Monozukuri: Harmony with Nature and Society
Conclusions
Endnotes

Lean and Green Business Leadership
Lean and Green Leadership: Case Study of Adnams PLC
Introduction
Adnams Brewery: A History of Innovation and Community Values
Where Values Meet Innovation: Sustainability Investments at Adnams
Energy-Efficient Brewstream
Eco-Efficient Distribution Center
East Green Beer: A Celebration of Environmental Values
Bio-Digester: An Industrial Ecology
Incremental Sustainability Initiatives
Business Gains from Sustainability: The Lean Side of Green
Conclusion: Innovative Solution and Human Drivers
Lean and Green Strategy Deployment
Lean and Green Strategy Deployment: Case Study of Tesco Plc
A Brief History
Tesco: A Customer-Focused Company
Conclusions
Endnotes
Lean and Green Supply Chain Collaboration
Lean and Green Supply Chain Management: Case Study of Marks and Spencer
A Brief History
Engaging Staff Internally
Engaging Suppliers
Key Achievements of Plan A
Plan A as a Key Source of Innovation
Plan A and Enhancement of the M&S Brand
Plan A, Resource Efficiency, and Waste Reduction
Plan A in the Extended Supply Chain
People Factor
Synergies between Plan A and Lean Thinking in M&S
Scorecard Mechanism to Embed Sustainability across the Supply Chain
Current Challenges
Lean and Green Intervention to Improve the M&S Supply Chain
Realigning Product Specification and Recipe to Consumer Needs
Minimizing Product In-Store Waste and Increasing On-Shelf Availability
Reducing Inventory, Lead Time, and Number of Product Touches
Reducing Demand Amplification and Demand Distortion
Benefits of Lean and Green Improvement along the Whole Chain
Conclusion: Role of Lean in Delivering Plan A
Lean and Green Supply Chain Management: Case Study of MAS
World’s First Carbon-Neutral Bra: Case Study of MAS in Sri Lanka
Endnotes

THE WAY FORWARD

Lean and Green Growth: An East Anglian Model
What Is the Lean and Green Economy?
Regional Context
Low-Carbon Impact
Sustainable Growth and Employment
Conclusions and Wrap Up

Bibliography
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index

Notă biografică

Keivan Zokaei has been with the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC), Cardiff University Business School since April 2004. He holds a PhD from Cardiff University and an MSc degree from Warwick University. Before that he has been a Business Development Manager in the Oil and Gas industry. At LERC he managed and delivered various projects in operations and supply chain management. He has also been consulting to both public and private sector. He has lectured on executive and postgraduate degrees at Cardiff, Cambridge and Warwick Universities. He regularly delivers short courses to executives from different sectors and has developed bespoke training for companies such as Volvo. He is a regular contributor to international conferences and a visiting lecturer at Warwick University.

Keivan has been an advisor to the General Auditor for Wales on the adoption of lean thinking in the public sector and is currently working with both Welsh Assembly Government and the Wales Audit Office to deliver more efficient public services. He has authored various reports for government departments, industry bodies and the private sector on lean production and also appeared on BBC Radio Wales.
L. Hunter Lovins is president and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS) (www.natcapsolutions.org). NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance the natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and Implementers, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and strategies to enable companies, communities, and countries to become more sustainable.

Trained as a sociologist and lawyer (JD), Hunter is also currently faculty at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the chief insurgent of the madrone project.

Lovins has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. She has consulted with large and small companies including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar, and Wal-Mart. Governmental clients include the Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and other agencies, numerous cities, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and the U.S. She has also served an advisor to the Energy Minister of the Government of Afghanistan.

Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet and in 2009 Newsweek dubbed her a "Green Business Icon." She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism, 2006 e-book Climate Protection Manual for Cities, and the 2009 Transforming Industry in Asia. She has served on the boards of governments, non- and for profit companies.

Hunter’s areas of expertise include Natural Capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, and fire rescue and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She was a founding Professor of Business at Presidio Graduate School, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in Sustainable Management and is currently Chief Insurgent of the madrone project.

Peter Hines is Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School. He holds a BA (MA) in geography from Cambridge University and an MBA and PhD from the University of Cardiff. Peter followed a successful career in distribution and manufacturing industry before joining Cardiff Business School in 1992. Since that time he initially led the Materials Management Unit and now chairs the Lean Enterprise Research Centre within Cardiff Business School. The Lean Enterprise Research Centre is the largest dedicated research centre in Lean Thinking in the world.

He has undertaken extensive research into Lean Thinking and Supply Chain Management in both the automotive and other industries and has pioneered a number of key concepts, methods and applications in Europe, including: Supplier Associations (now involving over 800 European firms), Value Stream Mapping, Network Sourcing, the Three Tier System of Management and the Value Stream Analysis Tool. He has written or co-written several books including "Creating World Class Suppliers" published by Pitman in 1994, "The Lean Enterprise" published by AMACOM in 1997, "Value Stream Management" published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in 2000 and Staying Lean published in 2008 which won a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Recipient for 2009.