Operations Strategy for Lean, Green and Digital Innovations

present era of Industry 4.0 and net zero economy, Sustainable development is considered a universal goal for every business organization. For having sustainable growth, organisations need to continuously adopt lean, green and digital innovations across various processes. Maintaining balance among these measures is a big challenge for most of the organisations today. Despite this tension, some organizations such as 3M, Walmart, GE, IBM, the Hyatt Regency, and Scandic hotels, among others, have been able to turn their environmental concerns into a competitive edge. While these organizations have overcome this traditional trade-off, there is no shared understanding nor strategic guidance on how to achieve sustainable, climate neutral and cost-effective business operations without compromising productivity, the quality of goods and/or services, and the environment. Furthermore, if we consider the three dimensions of sustainability, where social responsibility is added to economic and environmental concerns, a holistic analysis approach seems to be missing. Embracing the three dimensions of sustainability into the upstream process pipelines and to continuously improve operations requires a deep understanding of key internal interactions within the company and key external interactions across the value chain. This understanding, however, still appears to be at a stage of infancy. On the one side, limited perspectives for sustainable development have been considered, on the other, recent studies still identify the prevailing need to enhance our understanding of the link between lean, green and digital innovations and sustainable development.
Among the operational improvement initiatives that seem to have an explicit connection with sustainable growth are those based on lean, green and digital thinking. Fortunately, the existence of lean has offered a way to sustain operations. In lean, a company focuses on producing high quality products in the most efficient and economical way while incorporating less human effort, less inventory, less time to develop products, and less space and yet highly responsive to customer demands. Elimination of material waste directly meets the sustainability objectives. By cutting down unnecessary wastes in all resources, organizations will have more reserves of these resources to be used in the future sustainability. Integrating lean with green and digital innovations may help in achieving many sustainable development goals (SDGs) also along with climate neutrality in operations. There are also several real cases of organizations that have embraced lean along with green and digital innovations in order to maintain competitiveness in the global market.

Objectives

Despite successful “lean” “green” and “digital” innovations in many organizations, the journey to implement lean is not easy and is bound to encounter various challenges. These challenges include: uncertainty in demand, pressure from customers and top management, shortening product life cycle, non-effective method, knowledge and information transfer, and training. Moreover, human integration poses a great challenge and has become the top priority for companies adopting these innovations to sustain their operations. To tackle such kind of challenges, each individual need to be trained about concept of lean and sustainable systems. Knowledge of such systems will help organisations or professionals to adopt a strategic approach for sustainable development. Therefore, this program is designed with following broad objectives.
• To develop understanding of key challenges in managing lean, green and digital innovations across different sectors
• To develop appropriate operations strategies for making production systems resilient and climate neutral to be globally competitive.
• Developing strategic leadership for creating organization culture driven by lean, green and digital innovations

Contents

• Introduction and Principle of Lean/ green and digital innovations in operations/supply chains
• Concepts of 5S and kaizen, Circular economy, Net Zero economy, Industry 4.0
• Applications of Industry 4.0 technologies for lean and climate neutral operations
• Process mapping and Value Stream Mapping for improving sustainability
• Tools of Lean, Kanban, Batch sizes, Set-up times, Standard work, Jidoka, Heijunka
• Secondary tools in lean manufacturing-, Radar chart, Pokayoke, SMED etc.
• Lean inventory, Flow, Line balancing, Machine cells, digital tools
• Lean Manufacturing through process digitization
• Supplier Involvement and Support for lean/green/digital innovations
• Quality management tools and six sigma concepts for resilient processes
• Hoshin Planning, Continuous Improvement, Waste Elimination
• Application of Industry 4.0 technologies for Green supply chains and reverse logistic
• Triple bottom line approach and ESG practices for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• Operations strategy for application of Industry 4.0 technologies to ensure climate neutral operations
• Developing strategic leadership for adopting lean, green and digital innovations in organisations

Who should attend?

This program will be useful for Executives and professionals involved in managing different value adding operations in their respective organisation across different sectors. It will be helpful for participants in making production systems more efficient and responsive to dynamic market requirements.

Venue & Duration

The programme is scheduled during February 11-13, 2026 on a residential basis at MDI Campus, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurugram. Accommodation for participants would be available at MDI Campus from the noon of February 10, 2026 to the forenoon of February 14, 2026.

Registration & Fees

Participants should be nominated by their organizations. The enclosed nomination form should be completed and returned with all the details. The fee of the program is Rs. 42,500/- (Rupees Forty Two Thousand Five Hundred only) per participant which includes a professional fee and all charges for boarding, lodging and supply of course materials during the programme. GST as applicable will be charged extra in addition to the programme fee. Payment should be made by Cheque/NEFT/RTGS.


Discount Policy
With a view to our long-term relationship with your esteemed organization, we are pleased to introduce the discount policy in this programme. The discount will be observed in the following conditions: (discount is applicable in NEPAL also)
• 10% Discount against 3-5 nominations
• 20% Discount against more than 5 nominations

Important Dates

The last date for receipt of nominations is January 28, 2026. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is January 29, 2026. Any withdrawal received after this date will be subject to deduction as per the Institute’s rules. However, substitution may be permitted.
Nominating organizations are advised to await confirmation of acceptance of nominations(s) before sending the participants to the programme venue.

(For enquiry, please contact at [email protected] or +91-124-4560008.)