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Business Sustainability Integration – Tips from Lean Implementation

Friday, May 17, 2013 by
  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...

How Would You Define A Sustainability Leader?

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 by
  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?

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 by
  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

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by
  “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...

Is Going Paperless Sustainable?

Friday, May 10, 2013 by
  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...

What Is A Community Stakeholder?

Thursday, May 9, 2013 by
  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?

Thursday, May 9, 2013 by
  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...

Content or Context: Which Creates Powerful Sustainability Communications?

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 by
  Sustainability has emerged as an important component to our everyday lives, directly shaping our daily activities— the products we purchase; the materials we recycle; and our views on politics, business, climate change, and more. While its...

Why Your Green Business Needs a Social Media Policy and What to Do About It

Monday, May 6, 2013 by
  A survey of 600 small business owners across the United States indicates that 90% are actively engaged in social networking sites and 74% perceive social networking as valuable — if not more valuable — than networking in-person.  The 2011 Social...

Tips to Increase Your Business Sustainability Capital

Monday, May 6, 2013 by
  In a recent Innovation Excellence post, Building Up Innovation Capital, our sustainability consulting is presented with a new concept for discussion.  The author describes a newly recognized and valued process of capturing knowledge as a form...

New Concepts in How Social Media Makes Employees More Productive

Friday, May 3, 2013 by
  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...

What a Sustainable Innovation Culture Looks Like

Friday, May 3, 2013 by
  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...

Applications of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance

Monday, April 29, 2013 by
  “Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008…To rebuild trust, investors and the public need comparable data on how financial institutions are managing environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.”...

Where Does Talent Rank Among Your Precious Business Sustainability Resources?

Thursday, April 25, 2013 by
  “Employees are the key to creating sustainable companies, but that they - and their colleagues in human resources - are often overlooked when companies embark on environmental programs…they help better companies attract better people and motivate...

Why Employee Engagement Adds More Value than Just the Bottom Line

Thursday, April 25, 2013 by
  Employees can make a difference in internalizing sustainability and translating high-level commitments into action and results in a corporate sustainability plan.  When you consider that daily, employees make far reaching decisions impacting an...

The Use of Language in a Culture of Sustainability

Monday, April 22, 2013 by
  A challenge with corporate sustainability has been about changing mindsets and systems.  Businesses often try to sell change to the organization as a way to attain agreement and accelerate sustainable business implementation. Selling change...

Earth Day Inspiration - 25 Green and Sustainability Pinterest Boards to Follow

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by
  In a perfect world, our world's energy is powered by renewable sources, business sustainability is the norm, and sustainable lifestyles abound.  While we're not quite there yet, as a sustainability consultant, I ask, "What will get us there?"...

Proof Is In the Pudding: CSR Drives Public Confidence

Thursday, April 11, 2013 by
  Although business sustainability is not new, grasping sustainability concepts and its practical applications to a specific business is new to some business leaders.  It is not uncommon within our business sustainability consulting practice to be...

Five Additional Tips for Your Employee Engagement Strategy

Thursday, April 11, 2013 by
  Who is ultimately responsible for stakeholder engagement?  Where do employees rank among business sustainability stakeholders?  And how do they directly contribute to your business' success?  These are the questions many business sustainability and...

Sustainable Innovation Is All About Engagement

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 by
  A commonly held belief which is gaining much more attention these days is that employees with a vested interest in the success of the company become much more aligned with the goals of the organization. Thus, the key is to link business...
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