We are facilitators and agents of change through the management of innovative technology and good practices. This is done in order to increase the competitiveness of organizations through the understanding of source problems, through a design for the environment, environmental management and profitable business management with the purpose of attaining an integral administration that increases efficiency and productivity through outcomes of impact.
This requires new forms of analysis, multidisciplinary research and the integration of innovative and creative visioning that are capable of broadening a variety of future possibilities, when complex factors are aligned in regards to business steering and investment and innovation through ecological, economical, technical, social and cultural-focused actions.
Walter Araya
Senior Partner
ACH Consulting Group
Mr. Araya is an MBA and Industrial Engineer from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR). He holds studies from the Kitakyushu International Techno-Cooperative Association (KITA/JICA), Japan; Maastricht School of Management (MSM), Maastricht University, The Netherlands; and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), University of Lund, Sweden; specializing in Policies, Environmental Management, Clean Production and Entrepreneurship Promotion and Industrial Assistance.
With more than 15 years of local and international experience, Walter has served as a consultant to various multilateral organizations and businesses on Sustainability Management and business innovation in products and services systems with social and environmental attributes.
Within its main areas of performance and action, are: i) improvement of the conditions of strategies, plans and legislation; ii) Public-Private Partnerships as an instrument for the strengthening of country development through successful productive chains; and iii) Production and competitiveness.
He has been a visiting lecturer in the Masters Program in Modern Manufacturing Systems at the ITCR and the School of Food Technology at the University of Costa Rica.
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