Author: Tim O'Brien
Ford Motor Company's experience with ISO 14001 proves that there is synergy between doing well environmentally and doing well financially. Ford Chairman William Clay Ford, Jr. estimates the company will realize improved environmental performance as well as cost reductions, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars since becoming the first automotive company in the world to achieve independent certification of its manufacturing facilities to the international standard on environmental management systems. Ford & ISO 14001 chronicles the successful strategy developed by the automaker to achieve compliance in more than 140 manufacturing sites worldwide, while maintaining a focus on bottom-line lessons that can be applied to companies of any size.
