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“Creating a Lean and Green Business System” earns 2014 Shingo Prize

The Shingo Institute has awarded Keivan Zokaei, Hunter Lovins, Andy Wood and Peter Hines with the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for their work “Creating a Lean and Green Business: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability.”   Creating a Lean and Green Business System is an excellent book that demonstrates the close link between eliminating
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Karen Hester of Adnams Reflects on “Creating a Lean and Green Business System”

Reflecting on the book ‘Creating a Lean and Green Business Systems: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability’ describing how Mr Ford and Mr Toyoda came up with the original idea of “LEAN management”, to improve manufacturing processes, it is apparent that the systems have gone far beyond the original concept now reflecting Corporate Social Responsibility
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Hyundai’s Corporate Social Responsiblity discussion with John Krafcik

In an interview with John Krafcik is best known for coming up with the term “Lean” during his time at MIT, as part of a research team comparing American and Japanese automobile manufacturing. He joined Hyundai in 2004 as vice president of Product Development and Strategic Planning after tenures at Ford Motor Company and the
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Danish Lean & Green Network is Launched

This new network is the first Lean & Green network in Denmark and is established in cooperation with the British consultancy SA Partners, who will provide hands on and profound coaching. The goal is to attrach members who are leaders on both a corporate and employee level, that are operating or have the desire to
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Is Lean Green? Is This The Right Question?

In an article written in the Lean Management Journal in March 2010 (Issue 3, March/April), author Keivan Zokaei discusses how companies are making the connection between their Lean and continuous improvement and the sustainability movement driven by their customers, owners and employees. He makes the following statements: You can read the entire article at https://web.archive.org/web/20160815134541/http://leanandgreenbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Is-Lean-Green.pdf