Product Description
by Andrea Pampanelli (Author), Neil Trivedi (Author), Pauline Found (Author)
This book proposes a new model, the Lean and Green Business Model (L&GBM), where the environmental aspect of sustainability is integrated with Lean thinking to create a way of thinking that contributes to and balances the three sustainability dimensions of people, profit, and planet. The model presented uses a kaizen approach for improving mass and energy flows in manufacturing environments that already possess a deployment level in applying Lean. The book tells the story of how a major British multinational corporation developed and implemented an L&GBM in two of its automotive facilities in Brazil.
Author Biography
Dr. Andrea Pampanelli has more than 15 years of environmental and 5 years of Lean experience working for GKN Driveline. During her career in GKN, Dr. Pampanelli developed more than 100 EHS & Lean research projects applied to GKN in partnership with Brazilian local universities and won more than 15 excellence awards from GKN Driveline, GKN Group, and OEM customers. She has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, an MBA in environmental management, a master's degree in production engineering from UFRGS in Brazil, and a specialization degree in safety engineering by Unisinos in Brazil.
Neil Trivedi is a highly experienced strategy and transformation consultant and qualified Lean expert, with broad experience across global platforms within the automotive, aerospace, food, FMCG, transportation, biomedical, and public sectors. He has been instrumental in helping organizations improve their performance by collaboratively tackling complex business problems and in designing and implementing solutions that demonstrate tangible benefits to businesses. Dr. Pauline Found is a course director for MSc in continuous improvement in public services and a senior lecturer in Lean operations at the University of Buckingham. She was previously senior research fellow of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC) at Cardiff University, where she worked for nine years and was involved in a range of research, knowledge transfer, and engagement and executive education projects and initiatives, as well as writing books and papers on Lean. She is coauthor of Staying Lean: Thriving Not Just Surviving, for which she holds a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize (2009).
