Strategy | The Green Economy Post: Green Careers, Green Business, Sustainability

45 Carbon Management Best Practices Needed To Be Competitive in The Green Economy

By Aysu Katun on April 26, 2010 1 Comment best practices, carbon data management, carbon information management, carbon leaders, carbon management, carbon novices, carbon strategy, CDP, compliance, cutting carbon emissions, Deloitte, employee involvement, energy efficiency, financial strategy, green supply chain management, IBM, regulatory compliance, setting targets, stakeholder engagement, strategy, Verdantix

A list of best practices in carbon management, based on lessons learned by carbon leaders.

A Day in The Life of a Chief Sustainability Officer

By Kathrin Winkler on November 10, 2009 6 Comments APJ., Battery regulations, best practices, Climate Corps, corporate sustainability, CSO, data sets, DESC, E3, EHS, EMC, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, engineering, Engineering's Energy Efficiency and Effectiveness, environment, environmental, Environmental Sustainability Board, eWaste regulation, facilities, GHG emissions, Green Business, Green Champions, Green-IT, Innovation Conference, mentoring, Principles of Environmental Sustainability, procurement, product compliance, ranking, renewable energy, RFP, risks, social, strategy, supply chain, sustainability, The Green Grid, vendor, waste, WEEE, WEF, WRI

The following is an account of one day on the job with Kathrin Winkler. She is Sr. Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation, where she has a history of taking on entirely new roles in which she has to fill in the interstices between more traditional functions. She took on the full-time sustainability position in July of 2008.

Creating Competitive Advantage Through Sustainability

By Jennifer_Rice on September 22, 2009 1 Comment brand credibility, brand strategy, business sustainability, channel partners, competitive differentiatio, competitive differentiation, CSR, customer experience, eco messaging, FairRidge Group, Fruitful Strategy, green messaging, greenwashing, ingredient brand, Jennifer Rice, market leadership position, market-facing aspiration, master brand, product brand, product manufacturer, retail partners, SM3, strategy, sub-brand, sustainability, sustainability infrastructure, Sustainability Management Maturity Model, sustainability-minded buyers, TAM, TASM, total addressable market, Total Addressable Sustainability Market, Triple Pundit, values-driven buyers

I recently published a post on Triple Pundit that fleshes out the market-facing aspects of a model I’ve been working on with The FairRidge Group. Called the Sustainability Management Maturity Model (SM3), it’s a tool to help businesses assess their readiness to address business sustainability challenges and opportunities. The internal management components were outlined a few months ago on Triple Pundit – Strategy, Organization, Process, Measurement and People – which all relate to an inside-out perspective of the business.