Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability. Presenting numerous award-winning cases and examples from companies such as Unilever, Patagonia, Tumi, DSM and Umicore alongside original ideas based upon 20 years of consulting experience, this book reveals how to design and implement a stronger sense of focus and move sustainability programs forward. This proven combination of purpose, direction and speed is dubbed Vectoring. Based upon practitioner cases and data analysis from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Vectoring offers a plain-spoken framework to identify the relative position of companies compared to their peers. The framework and its 4 archetypes deliver insights for practitioners to locate inhibitors and overcome them by providing practical suggestions forprocess improvements. This includes designing and executing new sustainability programs, embedding the SDGs within company strategy and assessing the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness and valuation. Offering directions for CFOs to shift companies from integrated reporting to integrated thinking in order to accelerate their sustainability programs, Winning Sustainability Strategies shows how to achieve purpose with profit and how to do well by doing good.

Puts forward a proven combination of direction and speed in sustainability programs: Vectoring Offers a means to assess the impact of sustainability programs on company competitiveness and valuation Features award-winning IMD case studies from companies such as Unilever, Umicore, Novozymes and Bodegas Torres

Autorentext

Benoit Leleux is the Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was also director of the MBA program (2006-2008) and director of Research and Development (2004-2008). He is currently the co-Director of Foundations for Business Leadership (FBL).

Jan van der Kaaij co-founded his advisory firm in 1997. Today Finch & Beak has grown into a European consultancy specialized in accelerating sustainability. Jan managed numerous consulting projects for major companies such as McDonalds, SwissPost and DSM. Since 2004 he is associated with IMD Lausanne on sustainability.

Klappentext
Despite recent optimism and global initiatives the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability. Presenting numerous award-winning cases from companies such as Unilever and Umicore alongside original ideas based upon 20 years of consulting experience, this book reveals how to design and implement a stronger sense of focus and move sustainability programs forward. This proven combination of purpose, direction and speed is dubbed Vectoring.

Based upon practitioner cases and big data analysis from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Vectoring offers a plain-spoken framework to identify the relative position of companies compared to their peers. The framework and its 4 archetypes deliver insights for practitioners to locate inhibitors and overcome them by providing practical suggestions for process improvements. This includes designing and executing new sustainability programs, embedding the SDGs within company strategy and assessing the impact of sustainability programs on competitiveness and valuation. Offering directions for CFOs to shift companies from integrated reporting to integrated thinking in order to accelerate their sustainability programs, Winning Sustainability Strategies shows how to achieve purpose with profit.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Patters of Frontrunners.- Chapter 3: The Quest for Purpose.- Chapter 4: Focusing on Materialities that Matter.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 6: ESG Ratings and Stock Markets.- Chapter 7: Investors' Perspectives on Sustainability.- Chapter 8: Encouraging a Culture of Sustainability.- Chapter 9: Partnering as Strategy.- Chapter 10: Towards a Circular Economy.- Chapter 11: Capturing the Sustainability Premium.- Chapter 12: Stellar Performance from Sustainability Teams.- Chapter 13: Embedding Sustainability into the Business Core.- Chapter 14: Epilogue. <p