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Strategic Sustainability - The 90-minute Business Case for Sustainability

The latest title in the DōShorts Collection

Strategic Sustainability - The 90-minute Business Case for Sustainability

The latest title in the DōShorts Collection

Published 06-26-13

Submitted by Do Sustainability

Strategic Sustainability -
a 90-minute expert guide

In many businesses sustainability is one person’s passion and responsibility. A large part of their job becomes selling sustainability to other people in the business.

Strategic Sustainability: Why it Matters to Your Business and How to Make it Happen offers arguments, information and tactics that person will need to get the buy-in and move sustainability forward in their business.

This short, expert guide is the latest title in the DōShorts Collection – a series of 90-minute masterclasses on a wide range of practical business sustainability challenges, covering reporting, communications, employee engagement, investment, risk and adaptation, accounting, strategy and more.

Strategic Sustainability:

  • Sets out the benefits of sustainability to you and your stakeholders
  • Shows how to identify the biggest issues, impacts and wins for your business
  • Helps you identify the resources you will need to put sustainability at the heart of your business
  • Outlines key reasons why businesses that are not multinationals should take action on sustainability, and how to do it
  • Looks in detail at how to integrate sustainability with business strategy and mission.

Companies that will be fit for purpose in 2020 are addressing sustainability now. This book makes an airtight case for why action is essential and how sustainability can help a business not only survive but thrive in competitive marketplaces.

Here's a small sample from the detailed Table of Contents:

  • Benefits: Why sustainability matters: Operationally; To your employees; To your customers; To your community; To your regulators; In your value chain
  • Identifying your material issues
  • What are your competitors doing?
  • Identify resources
  • Create a USP
  • Resource efficiency – energy, water, waste
  • Supply chain
  • Selling sustainability before you start: To the board; To key resource holders; To key actors; To your staff
  • Shouldn’t we be focusing on the things that really matter?
  • Case study – Yearsley Group
  • Building your business case

A subscription? DōShorts are available as individual books or as a collection, by subscription. Our platform supports unlimited, multi-user access for everyone in your organisation – ideal for training and innovation programmes or to keep up with best practice. Personal subscriptions are also available.

CSRwire discount code: Please use code CSR15 when you order from www.dosustainability.com for 15% off. (Subscriptions not included.)

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Dō Sustainability is the publisher of DōShorts – a series of short, practical books that distill business sustainability insights and best practice for busy professionals. DōShorts are available singly in print or ebook or by individual or corporate subscription to the entire library of content. Visit www.dosustainability.com for more information.

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