Are You Getting Business Sustainability Results?

  Within the Financial Times article, Companies See Innovation Without Results, our sustainability consulting finds a parallel conversation to those which many executives are having in relation to business sustainability measures.   The...

Best Practices to Get Employees Involved in Social Media for Sustainability

  Does Social Media Make Workers More Productive?   According to a recent study from McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), there is a great deal of potential value in using social media “to enhance communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration...

The Difference Between Being Green and Sustainability

  Two emerging buzz words have accompanied growing eco awareness in our society:  Sustainability and Green.   As many find the terms confusing, we share within our sustainable business programs the difference from our perspective.   Simply put, green...

Driving Sustainability Line of Sight through a Simple Narrative

  “In most cases it is an individual who takes the lead in developing a crazy idea, typically the person whose idea it is, usually with little or no direction from the organization. Unfortunately, in the majority of cases, the strong...

Insights into Corporate Citizenship Roles, Salaries and Job Satisfaction

  A key to corporate financial success is having the right people in the right positions - from the very top to the very bottom.  In addition, it has become increasingly important to have expanded eco awareness and a skill set to respond to...

Does Business Sustainability Have Time for the Individual?

  In a recent GreenBiz article, Is There an 'I' in Sustainability, our sustainability consulting finds an interesting discussion on business sustainability and the role individuals play in the pursuit of it.  While it goes without saying...

Business Sustainability Integration – Tips from Lean Implementation

  In an unlikely source, Food Magazine, our sustainability finds some interesting business sustainability insight.  Contained within the post, Closing the Cap: Lean Management, is a discussion of process efficiencies and the elimination of waste in...

Merging Strategic Innovation and Business Sustainability Collaboration

  Over the past few years, our sustainability consulting has written and spoken a great deal about how successful business sustainability cultures focus on communication and learning.  We believe that by allowing for flexibility and promoting...

Social Media Success Defined

  Social and environmental responsibility remains an important part of communication strategy for today’s organizations, and now thanks to social media, there are more tools than ever to engage your audiences and share your message. As we mentioned...

How Would You Define A Sustainability Leader?

  What is a leader?  What are the qualities  of great business sustainability leadership?  Does leadership rest only on the shoulders of those in the top positions in your organization or is it present in each of us?   Our business...

What Drives Business Sustainability Action?

  We are all driven in some form or fashion by internal or external incentives.  These motivators take on many shapes, and they are not all the same for each individual.  This is why our sustainability consulting has a keen interest in the...

Keeping Up With Business Sustainability Trends

  “While the key to growth is beating your competitors to market, you can’t rush off to pursue every major disruptive trend. Make sure you track leading market signals and criteria to assess the materiality of megatrends. Before you begin the...

Why Do People Go Green?

  What is green living?  Is it living off the grid? Living in a green house? Working at a green job? Is it having a green business? What exactly does it mean to be green? Green living is not only about people. It is also about plants, animals, and...

Who Are My Stakeholders and How Do I Engage With Them?

  Stakeholders: Usually thought of as a corporate term used to define employees and investors most affected by a decision.  While true, this view only represents a very small slice of the total spectrum.  We find in our sustainability and social...

Capitalizing on Business Sustainability Indicators

  “Having the right metrics isn’t enough; it’s what you do with them that counts. Leading companies are better at understanding the interrelationships between different metrics, knowing when to trade-off metric precision for credibility, and using...

Is Going Paperless Sustainable?

  The old rule of paper was, “File, Don't Pile".  However, with growing eco awareness, there is a clear environmental need for paperless offices.   The paper industry is one of the world’s major polluting industries and one of the largest...

Ideas Must be Sustainable to Be Considered Innovation

  In a new resource for our sustainability consulting, we find an interesting discussion by Memeburn on transforming ideas into actual innovation.  Contained within the post, Sorry, But Your Good Idea Isn’t Innovation Until You Do Something, we find...

What Is A Community Stakeholder?

  Stakeholder: defined as a group or an individual who, not only is affected by, but can also directly affect the actions of a company. Business stakeholders are often limited to the most obvious (i.e. investors, employees, suppliers customer, etc.)....

When and How Do Sustainable Breakthroughs Happen?

  In a recent Forbes Magazine article, Why Tim Cook And Greg Gretsch Are Wrong About Innovation Teams, we find an executive level discussion on how to head-off the threat of new ideas by engaging the knowledge of the stakeholder base.  Leveraging the...

What are Social Resources – Are Yours Engaged?

  Recent business success stories reveal that, armed with even the best ideas and intentions, an organization can become bogged down with the complexities of ‘actionable’ next steps in a sea of miscommunication.  As such, the ability to leverage...