Green Six Sigma: A Lean Approach to Sustainable Climate Change Initiatives - Hardcover

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Ron Basu, PhD, is Director of RB Consultants and a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School, England. He is also a Visiting Professor at SKEMA Business School in France. His specialties are in Operational Excellence and supply chain management and his research interests include performance management and project management.

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Apply the principles of Six Sigma to your company’s next climate change initiative

Green Six Sigma: A Lean Approach to Sustainable Climate Change Initiatives offers leaders and organizations a practical and hands-on approach to implementing their next climate change mitigation project. Applying the principles of Lean Six Sigma to the practical realities of sustainability initiatives, renowned Six Sigma and Operational Excellence consultant Ron Basu walks readers through the relevant principles of Lean Six Sigma and demonstrates their application in an environmental context.

The book also explores the application of Green Six Sigma to various functional areas in business, including digital technology, energy, supply chains, transport, building retrofits and climate change adaptations. Each of the included chapters includes “Green Tips” that offer immediately applicable advice businesses can implement to get real results on their existing or contemplated climate change initiatives. With a completely novel approach to accelerating and implementing organizational sustainability projects, Green Six Sigma includes refreshing and eye-opening strategies for tackling one of the most foundational and existential problems of our time.

Green Six Sigma is a must-read book for community and government leaders with responsibility for climate change initiatives. It will also earn a place in the libraries of functional managers, participants, and practitioners of Six Sigma and Operational Excellence seeking insight into the tools and techniques of sustainable improvement. Finally, senior executives in manufacturing and service industries, and professional management and training consultants will also find the insights contained within to be invaluable.

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In this much needed book, Dr Ron Basu delivers an insightful exploration as well as sage advice on how to apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to today’s climate crisis. Green Six Sigma: A Lean Approach to Sustainable Climate Change Initiatives is an adaption of Lean Six Sigma for climate change initiatives. How can we use Green Six Sigma urgently and effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the harmful effects of global warming?

This practical and workable book covers topics that are highly relevant to the times we live in:

• Climate change challenges and initiatives to mitigate them
• Examination of the Green Six Sigma approach, its tools and techniques as well as modifications to incorporate both the digital revolution and sustainability
• Applications of the Green Six Sigma approach to a variety of areas relevant to climate change and in all economic sectors including energy, transport, manufacturing, services and agriculture
• Green Six Sigma in retrofitting houses and climate adaptation
• Guides to the implementation of sustainable climate change initiatives