Lean and Green

Chapter 4Track Progress for Environment and Profit

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The successful companies are those who can relate environmental changes to business performance. Upper management has to meet financial analysts’ projections, as well as see the big picture—meeting quarterly goals five years from now.

—Walt Rosenberg, director ofcorporate environmental affairs, Compaq

THE fourth of the Lean and Green steps measures and enforces all the progress you’ve made in the first three: Measure your organization’s Lean and Green progress, and strive continuously to improve. See that the Lean and Green steps your organization is taking are truly healthful both for planet and for profit, and keep raising the bar.

Here are three good reasons you should track the environmental ...