Exploring New Concepts in Sustainable System Change

  “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?

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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...

How to Set Up Pinterest for Green Brands in 5 Easy Steps

  Unless you are new to social media marketing, then you know that the new hottest social media platform is Pinterest.  With more than 20 million monthly active users spending on average over 90 minutes on the site each month, it is arguably...

Tips for Business Sustainability Team Building

  Our sustainability consulting practice has a keen interest in stakeholder engagement, particularly in the leverage of knowledge and eco awareness of individuals already in place within a business, a community, or even a much smaller social circle. ...

Get Spoked! It's National Bike Month!

  Yay!  It’s here! National Bike Month starts today — a full 31 days packed with unique and wonderful events and rides that celebrate the many joys and benefits of bicycling in communities nationwide.   At Taiga Company, we love bike month!  It's an...

Discover the Ease of Consumer Stakeholder Engagement Today

    Within our business sustainability programs, we encourage our clients to recognize that most business stakeholders have a vested interest  in the success of the company.  This aligned interest, if properly managed, creates an openness to new...

How Social Media Engagement With Stakeholders Can Guide Business Innovation

  The ability to capitalize on opportunity or mitigate business risk often depends on the availability and access to quality information.  Being able to sift through what is important and what is not can be a determining factor in transforming a good...

How Sustainability is Expanding Our Lateral Vision

  The economic challenges of the past few years brought a significant refinement and refocus to business.  Many organizations at the time found themselves taking uncommon and sometimes drastic measures to ensure business sustainability. However...

Applications of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance

  “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.”...

Business Sustainability – Riding the Waves of a Dynamic World

  As we all evaluate the range of possible futures in these economic times, there is little debate that business sustainability is on the leading edge of strategic thinking. Everyday we find more and more leading businesses taking proactive action to...

Jump Start to National Bike Month: Taiga at the Whiskey 50

  April showers bring May flowers  - and - National Bike Month!  While it may not be May yet, kicking off National Bike Month a little early, Taiga Company will be riding at the Whiskey 50 off road mountain bike race in Prescott, Arizona.   You may...

Appreciation As A Pathway to Eco Action

  They say what you put out, comes right back to you.  Sort of like karma.  Exactly what is karma? Karma is a Sanskrit word that means "action." Karma has commonly been considered a punishment for past bad actions, but karma is neither judge nor...

Where Does Talent Rank Among Your Precious Business Sustainability Resources?

  “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

  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...

Achieving Ideal Balance between Sustainability and Disruptive Change

  One of the challenges with business sustainability has been changing traditional organizational mindsets and existing business process.  The reality is that corporate leaders most often try to sell change to the organization as a way to attain...

How Sticky are Your Sustainability Communications?

  The post, The Stickiness Factor states: The New York based firm, Media Dynamics, estimates that the average American is now exposed to at least 254 different commercial messages in a single day. There are billions of websites vying for your...