How well is your organisation addressing Sustainability?
Sustainability management is established as key to reducing operating costs, whilst boosting sales and assuring happy and motivated staff.
It is equally applicable to SMEs as it is to large and multinational corporate businesses and - when applied well, requires very low resource away from 'business as usual'.
Here are our 10 'pressure test' questions to gauge how your organisation stacks up.
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Do you know what your competitors are doing - are they publishing formal GRI reports of their Sustainability and are you able to keep level with them?
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Does your organisation measure its Carbon Footprint - and if so do you include this within your Annual Report and market to your clients/prospects for full effect?
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Are you able to respond in an informed manner to sales tender requests for your Sustainable performance or do you not enter these 'contests'?
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Do you interrogate your suppliers' Sustainability - if you do, how well do you use these profiles to bolster your own credentials?
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Do you know and manage the true cost of waste & waste management within your business?
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Do you formally measure how much sustainability costs in your business and the ROI & do you get to report to the Board?
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Do your employees understand that sustainability is much more than about 'being green' and have clear direction on steps they can take (and benefits it brings them)?
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Do your marketing communications reflect your actions ....are they on target, do they miss the point or are they 'green-wash'?
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Do you fully implement your Sustainability/CSR report - or does it 'stay in the filing cabinet' without proper implementation - so you are never sure whether it is working?
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Are you actively using Sustainability to drive economic performance?
If you have answered 'no' to any or maybe a number of these questions, you may have holes in your Sustainability management that need addressing to protect profits and market performance/reputation.
Sustainability Footprint - Practical & Delivering Profit for You
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