Sustainability, environmental management and quality – parallels and differences
Sustainability, EMS & quality management - can a continuous improvement approach to the management of sustainability deliver real strategic change?
Sustainability Blog
Trends in sustainable business 2019
We look at what businesses will (or really should be) focusing on in 2019 and what should be in your strategy and plans.
UK Budget 2018 – any finance for a sustainable future?
The budget indicates the government’s funding priorities. We cut through the noise and look at what’s important for the environment and sustainability.
Sustainable Business Culture
Any change in organisational priority implies a change in organisational approach and capacity. Successful sustainability must be approached as a change issue, in the norms, values systems and structures of an organisation as much as the specific ambition, goals and performance commitments of a sustainability strategy.
UK Budget 2018 – any finance for a sustainable future?
The budget indicates the government’s funding priorities. We cut through the noise and look at what's important for the environment and sustainability.
Sustainable Business: cost or value?
Why you should look at sustainable business as a source of business value rather than a simply a cost of business.
The business case for sustainability – can we make money?
Many people are driven by purpose, the ethical dimension of sustainable business. But all businesses need to make money, we explore where value can be found in sustainable business.
Cost or value? Why is sustainability strategically undervalued?
The business case for sustainability is (shockingly) still either not recognised strategically (i.e. it is understood as an additive factor for operational efficiency or marketing/PR but not as a strategic value creation/destruction factor), or in many cases it is little understood at all.
Should companies be sustainability activists?
Sustainability is a transformative agenda. It requires companies to not only develop new priorities, but also to become corporate activists – to act to affect the wider system within which they operate.
Sustainability Managers: key challenges to best practice
While sustainability management has in many ways entered the mainstream, practitioners are often hampered by resistance, apathy and misunderstanding.
There are many examples of excellence in specific areas, but few companies are pursuing a transformative agenda at significant scale.
As the general acceptance and uptake of corporate sustainability has grown, we have seen a broad progression in adoption and maturity. However, most practice appears stuck in the middle, somewhere between compliance and greater adoption. There are still very few examples of companies taking a leading position in sustainability.
Mind the (massive) gender pay gap!
All UK companies with more than 250 staff must report their gender pay gap by 4th April 2018. The relatively small proportion who have reported are revealing a hugely asymmetric gender pay gap.
The sustainability of profit – stop looking back
Profit isn't very useful for measuring sustainability, or even for telling us much about economic viability. Why? Because profit is a lagging indicator and sustainability is inherently about long-termism. Delivering sustainability requires forward-looking indicators.