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Meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needsSustainability
Embedded in most definitions of sustainability we also find concerns for two..Social equity and economic development
Process of living within the limits of available physical, natural, and social resourcesSustainability
An intersection of business and sustainabilitySustainability management
Practice of managing a firm's impact on people, planet and profitSustainability management
Supports a business' long-term viability, because its preventive rather than proactiveSustainability management
It can take many forms including investing in fair-trade products, reducing packaging materials, and ensuring humane working conditions at supplier factories.Sustainability management
An in-depth review to determine whether a company is meeting its organizational objectives in the most efficient wayStrategic audit
It assesses various aspects of a business and evaluates and determines the most appropriate direction for the company to move toward in achieving its goals.Strategic audit
It assesses your current business strategy.Strategic audit
It assesses how suitable it is for your business.Strategic audit
It assesses whether your company is in position to execute the strategy.Strategic audit
Tool used to compareyour company's practices with best practices for sustainabilitySustainability audit
It draws upon widely-accepted best practices and condenses these into specific initiatives for conserving resources, engaging employees, giving back, and more.Sustainability audit
Poverty, malnutritionHealth and welfare
Lack of educationHealth and welfare
Illness, air and water pollutionHealth and welfare
Lack of basic suppliesHealth and welfare
Soil erosion, water shortageNutrition
MalnutritionNutrition
Food pollutionNutrition
Distribution and storage problemsNutrition
Child laborHuman rights
Wage dumping, work safetyHuman rights
Discrimination, injusticeHuman rights
Oppression, lawlessnessHuman rights
Pillar of sustainability that reduce operating costs and increase efficiencyEconomic
Pillar of sustainability which reduce the use of resources due to sophisticated environmental technologyEnvironmental
Pillar of sustainability for healthy, motivating working conditions, job security, for treatment of the environmentSocial
Environmental & EconomicsBearable
Economics and socialVisible
Environmental and socialEquitable
Economics, environmental, and socialSustainable
Ecological integrity is maintained, all of Earth's environmental systems are kept in balance and natural resources within them are consumed by humansEnvironmental sustainability
Secure sources of livelihoodEconomic sustainability
Universal human rights and basic necessities are attainable by all people, who have access to enough resources in order to keep their families and communities healthy and secure.Social sustainability
Individuals or nations are assigned a productive area.Ecological footprint
Individual demand in nature is determined.Ecological footprint
Resource generation and emissions are quantifiedEcological footprint
Area needed for regeneration is calculated based on individual useEcological footprint
Bilogically productive area of a country or regionBio capacity
Ratio > 1 denote land use to existing surfaceBenchmark of sustainability
Identification of all relevant parties/interest groups and their claimsTools
Criteria of time, cost and quality management are indispensable to each projectApplication
Set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-term performance of a corporationStrategic Mangement
This is strategic management element that focuses on both internal and external, SWOT analysis, industry analysis, competitors, organizations' benchmarkEnvironmental scanning
Strategic or long-range planning, vision, mission, goals and objectivesStrategy formulation
It refers to what is the organization.Strategy formulation
It refers to what specific action should be done.Strategy formulation
It refers to time to time evaluation.Evaluation and control
It is applicable to each department where there are controllable and uncontrollable risks.Evaluation and control
This phase includes all internal information: receipts, possible expenditures, disbursements.Basic financial planning
This phase is where projects proposed on the basis of every little analysis, with most information coming from within the firm.Basic financial planning
This phase is where internal information, historical data, assumptions, and overlooking of data are done.Forecast-based planning
This phase is time consuming.Forecast-based planning
This phase's time horizon is usually 3-5 years.Forecast-based planning
This phase is where the company seeks to increase its responsiveness to changing markets and competition by thinking strategically.Externally-oriented planning
It is doing an act when problem is present.Reactive
It is anticipating solutions for future situation.Proactive
To sustain operation regarding the efficacy of the organizationSustainability
Benefits of strategic managementClearer sense of strategic vision for the firm
Benefits of strategic managementSharper focus on what is strategically important
Benefits of strategic managementImproved understanding of a rapidly changing environment
The use of business practices to reduce a company's impact upon the natural, physical environmentEnvironmental sustainability
Risks about rules, regulations, practicesRegulatory risks
Policies in organization, businesses to customersSupply chain risks
Word of mouth, research development (top earning department)Product Risks
LawsuitsLitigation risks
Company's impact on the environment can heavily affect its overall reputationReputational risks
Direct posed by climate change includes the physical effects of droughts, floods, storms, and rising sea levelsPhysical risks
Proposes that organizations can & do adapt to changing conditions by imitating other successful organizationsInstitution theory
Proposing that not only do organizations adapt to a changing environment, but they also have the opportunity and power to reshapre their environmentStrategic choice perspective
An organization adjusts defensively to a changing environments and uses knowledge offensively to improve the fit between itself and its environmentOrganizational learning theory
HOTSHigher Order Thinking Skills
Capacity to think and make decisions fairlyrational
for contingency plansexperimenting with new approaches
Monitoring, evaluating, disseminating informationEnvironmental scanning
From external and internal environments to key people within the corporationEnvironmental scanning
To identify strategic factorsEnvironmental scanning
Factors of productionLand, labor, capital, entrepreneurs
Development of long-range plans for the effective management of environmental opportunities and threatsStrategy formulation
Defining corporate missionStrategy formulation
Specifying achievable objectivesStrategy formulation
Developing strategiesStrategy formulation
Setting policy guidelinesStrategy formulation
Purpose/reason of the organization's existenceMission
What the company is providing the society either a service or a productMission
claims that corporations should commit to focusing on social and environmental issues as much as they do on incometriple bottom line
aims to calculate the extent of commitment of a company to corporate social responsibility and its effect on the environment over timetriple bottom line
range of sustainability innovations from new product development tohybrid distribution chains public-private partnerships in sustainable municipal transportation community-based innovation models citizen cooperatives for alternative energy production and distribution
sustainable innovation is imperative for business survival in the sense of environment that is highly (4)volatile uncertain complex ambiguous
disassociate development from the environmental footprint but at the same time increasing the positive social effectssustainability
where each of the partners leverages its experties and its access to networkscollaborative and multistakeholder approach
people are encouraged to get what they need from each other directlycollaborative economy
suggests that conventional firms are threatened by their former customers' cooperationcollaborative economy
key goals: sustainability innovation and entrepreneurshiprole of citizens
key goals: agents of changerole of companies and entrepreneurs
key goals: shaping more sustainable lifestyles and favoring sustainability innovation and entrepreneurshiprole of policy
5 areas of inquiry and action for sustainabilityunderstand consumers' values and behavior
not a passive recipient of products and services, but rather an active participant in transparrent processes of innovationcitizumer