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Supply Chain Sustainability: Where’s Your Weakest Link?
When you’re developing a sustainability strategy, the tendency to look inward is strong. But the social and environmental impacts of your supply chain are even stronger. So how do you monitor actions that take place outside of your company’s walls?
Supply Chain Sustainability: A Worthy Challenge
Supply chain sustainability isn’t easy, but it is vitally important. When properly executed, a sustainable supply chain allows you to squeeze more efficiencies out of production, track the performance of hundreds of suppliers and make a social and environmental impact around the world.
Supply Chain Audit: A Competitive Advantage
Business Sustainability: Different Goals for Different Roles
What was your reaction when you first heard about sustainability? Did you think the fuzzy, tree-hugging character would never fly in the corporate sphere? Much of the business world still thinks this way. People in every department are still waiting for their sustainability epiphany. But that epiphany won’t come unless the message is tailored to their goals.
5 Ways to Explain Sustainability to 5 people
Everyone is unique. But as different as each of us may be, we still tend to find like-minded people across various business functions. By tailoring your approach to individual goals, you can build a cross-functional sustainability team that has the power to drive real change.
Destination Sustainability: How to Tell Your Story
You get it. After months of meetings, debate and analysis, you’re finally taking your first steps toward becoming a more socially and environmentally responsible company. Now that you’ve charted a course, how will you share your motivations and actions with the world?
Why You Should Communicate Early and Often
- Gain credibility by sharing the good and the bad – MolsonCoors recently announced the results of their sustainability initiative. Compared to the year prior, MolsonCoors increased water use by 3%, but lowered emissions by 15%. This is exactly the kind of honest self-evaluation that lends you credibility.
- Grow your impact by inspiring others by your example – Many say that Patagonia wrote the book on sustainable business. Today, Patagonia is teaching Wal-Mart how to apply their sustainability practices on a larger scale. Who can you partner with as either teacher or pupil?
- Attract investors passionate about sustainable businesses – When it comes to long-term return, shareholders increasingly turn to sustainable businesses. Socially and environmentally responsible companies offer lower risks compared to “business-as-usual” firms.