Sustainability decoded: how to unlock profit through the value chain
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Main Author: Musikanski, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London DoSustainability 2013
Series:DoShorts
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Item Description:Human Resources and Work-Life Balance
Abstract; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Who Can Use This Book; CHAPTER 1; Introduction -- Do Good, Make Good; The value chain; How to use this book; Chapter 2; Corporate Governance and Corporate Responsibility; Corporate governance: Keeping it real; What makes sustainability stick?; About a code of conduct . . .; Which code?; Your sustainability code of conduct; When it is time? The Sustainability Matrix decision tool; Chapter 3; Financial Accounting and Triple Bottom Line Accounting; Financial accounting straight up; Measure, manage, measure
Triple bottom line accounting: What is it and who is doing it?What do you measure?; Your company and the triple bottom line; Chapter 4; Marketing and Sales and Eco-Labels; For your information; Targets and segments; Eco-labels: Does this mean you're green?; Greenwashing -- Managing the risks; Dolphins, sea lions and the eco-labels; Eco-Label Graphic Matrix; Tips for use; Chapter 5; Procurement and Natural Resource-Based Procurement; Direct and indirect; Green procurement; Stepping up; Sustainability ratios; Chapter 6; Operations and Life Cycle Analysis
Operations -- Profit in the short term, profit in the long termThe granddaddy of management; The most important ingredient; Life cycle analysis and productivity; Efficiency and life cycle analysis; LCA Grid; Chapter 7; A Case Study: A Look at a Company in the Goods Industry -- Patagonia; Corporate governance and corporate responsibility; Accounting and the triple bottom line; Marketing & sales and eco-labels; Procurement/natural resource based procurement; Operations and life cycle analysis; Logistics and local economies; Service and reduce, reuse, recycle, redesign
Information technology and green buildings Human resources and work-life balance; Research & development and biomimicry; Chapter 8; Logistics and Local Suppliers; Logistics: Right time, right place . . .; Logistics and sustainability; Local economies; The local multiplier; The Local-Global Scorecard; Chapter 9; Service and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; Customer service; Where marketing ends and service begins; Customer service and sustainability; Reduce, reuse, recycle; Zero waste; The Redesign Card; Chapter 10; IT and Green Building; IT is . . .; The world runs on IT; Sustainability and IS.
Connecting the ephemeral and the concreteThe Green IT Checklist; Chapter 11; Case Study: A Look at a Company in the Service Industry -- One PacificCoast Bank; Corporate governance and corporate responsibility; Accounting and the triple bottom line; Marketing & sales and eco-labels; Procurement/natural resource based procurement; Operations and life cycle analysis; Logistics and local economies; Service and reduce, reuse, recycle, redesign; Information technology and green buildings; Human resources and work-life balance; Research & development and biomimicry; Chapter 12
Sustainability Decoded' is a business book that provides a no-nonsense, profitable means to practice sustainability. It is the only book of its kind that starts with the value chain and identifies where and how you can integrate sustainability into the stations along that chain
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (124 pages)
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