Integrated Management How Sustainability Creates Value For Any Business Robert P Sroufe by Robert P. Sroufe 9781787145627, 178714562X instant download after payment.

This book is for decision makers and lifelong students around the world who want to integrate sustainability into business strategy and management practices. We take the view that sustainability is not something that is to be done in addition to strategy; it is a part of strategy and leads to dynamic performance improvement.
Motivations for writing this book came about from a need to have a resource for students, researchers, and practitioners to quickly get up to speed on the strategic opportunities sustainability provides within any business. Opportunities include recognizing a global crisis of wasteful systems, and changing business as usual. While climate change, social unrest, high costs, and GHG emissions are symptoms, lack of integrated decision making is the problem. There is no place for lack of awareness and continued waste. Instead, there are growing opportunities across business sectors and the supply chains that connect them to involve an integrated approach to value creation, lower costs, the assessment of ESG performance, and decision analysis. This approach promises newinsight as to how integrated decision-making processes up and down the supply chain are possible for enterprises by leveraging evolving technical resources (e.g., artificial intelligence, big data, dashboards, and Blockchain) and cross-functional expertise to amplify the productivity of everyday systems.