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Ride On! Today is National Bike to Work Day!

Friday, May 17, 2013 by
May is recognized as National Bike Month and today, May 17th, is National Bike to Work Day.  As sustainability consultants, we couldn't be happier!  Cycling is part of a sustainable lifestyle, is alternative transportation, helps the environment, and...

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...

Merging Strategic Innovation and Business Sustainability Collaboration

Thursday, May 16, 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...

Social Media Success Defined

Thursday, May 16, 2013 by
  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?

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...

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

Monday, May 13, 2013 by
  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

Monday, May 13, 2013 by
  “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?

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...

Ideas Must be Sustainable to Be Considered Innovation

Friday, May 10, 2013 by
  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?

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...

What are Social Resources – Are Yours Engaged?

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 by
  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...

5 Ways Bike to School Day (today) Is Important

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 by
    Bling! Bling! What's that you might ask?!  Those are cyber bike bells ringing!  Today is National Bike to School Day.  As part of National Bike Month, Bike to School Day is a national event that gives communities across the country the...

Exploring New Concepts in Sustainable System Change

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 by
  “If you need radical or disruptive innovation, your existing body of knowledge, your scope and frameworks, even your tools and insights may become barriers to innovation rather than accelerators. That’s because true innovation is about...

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...
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