Reduce Energy Costs and Waste with Green Six Sigma

Efficient ways to achieve sustainable operations at a lower cost

What’s the carbon management issue? Increasing regulatory pressures, the focus on corporate social responsibility, and rising energy costs are forcing companies to reassess the impact of environmental issues and energy use on their business bottom line.

All over the world, new national and regional laws relating to carbon emissions and other environmental issues are seriously going to affect how companies operate in the future. As a result, the market for green initiatives is growing exponentially as businesses and consumers become environmentally aware. In the future, demand for energy is only expected to grow, outpacing supply.

The carbon footprint associated with this demand has a value, and offers growing economic incentives for companies to manage their carbon output more efficiently. These incentives will grow with the increasing maturity of ‘cap and trade’ systems around the world.

This is a new solution offering, which our expertise in Lean Six Sigma with other robust green initiatives, resources and intellectual capital across the company.

Defining key performance indicators (KPIs), and setting up suitably accurate monitoring capabilities in the targeted green focus area is key to assessing an organisation’s current position. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Once KPI monitoring is in place, ongoing control of the operational environment will not only ensure continued compliance, but will also act as a launchpad for future process improvements and cost savings initiatives. For example, having accurate and measurable kpi data readily available will make actual gains easy to demonstrate.

In summary, the value of improving carbon management and pursuing a Green Sigma solution includes:

• Managing and reducing the company’s carbon footprint

• Improving shareholder value by reducing the company’s overall energy consumption and associated costs