Sustainability-EBOO

Showing posts with label Sustainability. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2016

Operationalizing Sustainability

This book focuses on the emergence of the “science of sustainability” and the key concepts in making sustainability operational in an organization.

The authors discuss the methods, techniques and tools needed to manage the impact of sustainability and how these can be reformulated into business models and solutions for new growth and applications. They then move onto the reformulation of future thinking processes before ending by looking towards an approach for the measurement of sustainability and competitiveness.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Purposely Profitable: Embedding Sustainability into the DNA of Food Processing and other Businesses

Competing and winning in today?s competitive marketplace requires a strategy that includes sustainability. Business leaders who embrace it and convey a strong sense of purpose behind their strategy are propelling their organizations into revenue-increasing, cost-reducing outcomes.

Purposely Profitable: Embedding Sustainability into the DNA of Food Processing and other Businesses provides a proven, step-by-step methodology for integrating sustainability into the strategic plan to develop a strategy that is sustainable and aligned to a greater purpose. This book notably includes the following:

A primer on Sustainability that defines Sustainable Business and presents the Business Case for Sustainability

What is an organizational purpose and why is it so important in today?s competitive marketplace

Step by step instructions, supported by a case study, for developing each component of the strategic plan (Purpose, Vision, Strategic Pillars, KPI?s, Goals, Programs Action Plans, and Tactical Execution)

A suite of tools and resources to support the development and execution of the strategic plan

Scientists and managers in the global food supply chain, sustainability professionals, researchers, students, regulators, executives and business owners will come to learn and understand a powerful system for developing a strategy that is sustainable in order to maximize organizational performance.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Green Chemistry and Engineering: A Pathway to Sustainability

Although many were skeptical of the green chemistry movement at first, it has become a multimillion-dollar business. In preventing the creation of hazardous wastes, laboratories and corporations can save millions in clean up efforts and related health costs. This book supplies students with concepts commonly taught in undergraduate general chemistry and general engineering courses, but with a green perspective. It is unique in presenting an integrated discussion of green chemistry and engineering from first principles – not as an afterthought. Real-world examples show creative problem solving based on the latest issues.