Sustainagility – How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Help Protect our Future
Autor Patrick Dixon, Johan Goreckien Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2010
Innovation and agility will solve most of the greatest threats to our planet’s ecosystem, argue Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki. In Sustainagility, they suggest positive ways that businesses and individuals can address these threats while making a profit.
Sustainagility covers how to encourage green innovation inside an organization, how to develop green technologies faster, and how to adapt rapidly to stay ahead of competition. It includes text boxes containing shocking statistics about the destruction of our planet, short inspiring examples of how innovation has created new profitable business and helped the world, and personal messages from global leaders about sustainable innovation. Case studies of numerous well-known, high-profile companies are featured, demonstrating that companies have successfully used innovative and agile processes to improve their businesses and fight some of the greatest threats to the world's ecosystems.
Subjects covered include: Power; future cities; transport; manufacturing; water and wood; health and food; venture capital; carbon offsetting and banks; business agility and open innovation; 10 steps to profitable sustainability.
Sustainagility covers how to encourage green innovation inside an organization, how to develop green technologies faster, and how to adapt rapidly to stay ahead of competition. It includes text boxes containing shocking statistics about the destruction of our planet, short inspiring examples of how innovation has created new profitable business and helped the world, and personal messages from global leaders about sustainable innovation. Case studies of numerous well-known, high-profile companies are featured, demonstrating that companies have successfully used innovative and agile processes to improve their businesses and fight some of the greatest threats to the world's ecosystems.
Subjects covered include: Power; future cities; transport; manufacturing; water and wood; health and food; venture capital; carbon offsetting and banks; business agility and open innovation; 10 steps to profitable sustainability.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780749460839
ISBN-10: 0749460830
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 162 x 242 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Kogan Page
ISBN-10: 0749460830
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 162 x 242 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Kogan Page
Cuprins
Introduction: Future Scene – CNN Interview, UN President, 20 May 2040
1 Take Hold of the Future
2 Alternative Power Generation
3 Cleaner Coal, Oil and Gas
4 Smart Power and the Nuclear Boom
5 Better Cars, Trucks, Trains, Planes and Ships
6 Future Cities: Lower carbon to carbon-free
7 Making Better Products and Green IT
8 Solving the Water Crisis
9 Protecting and Managing Forests
10 Feeding the Whole World
11 Funding Green Tech – Offsetting and Taxes
12 Business Agility and Innovation
Appendix 1: Ten Steps to Profitable Sustainability
Appendix 2: Further Information
1 Take Hold of the Future
2 Alternative Power Generation
3 Cleaner Coal, Oil and Gas
4 Smart Power and the Nuclear Boom
5 Better Cars, Trucks, Trains, Planes and Ships
6 Future Cities: Lower carbon to carbon-free
7 Making Better Products and Green IT
8 Solving the Water Crisis
9 Protecting and Managing Forests
10 Feeding the Whole World
11 Funding Green Tech – Offsetting and Taxes
12 Business Agility and Innovation
Appendix 1: Ten Steps to Profitable Sustainability
Appendix 2: Further Information
Notă biografică
Patrick Dixon is one of the world's leading authorities on future trends. Ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50, 2005), he is also Chairman of Global Change Ltd. and the author of 12 other books, including Futurewise and Building a Better Business. He speaks to thousands of business leaders every year about sustainagility. His clients include Microsoft, Google, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, AT&T, Siemens, Ford, Airbus, KLM/Air France, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.
Johan Gorecki is founder/owner and CEO of the Globe Forum, an internationally recognized marketplace for innovators and investors working for a more sustainable and profitable future. He is the founder of the Globe Award, the leading sustainability prize for innovations, corporate academia and cities. He is also an entrepreneur, and a part of the team that developed Skype.
Johan Gorecki is founder/owner and CEO of the Globe Forum, an internationally recognized marketplace for innovators and investors working for a more sustainable and profitable future. He is the founder of the Globe Award, the leading sustainability prize for innovations, corporate academia and cities. He is also an entrepreneur, and a part of the team that developed Skype.
Descriere
"Sustainagility" is about how business innovations, applications, methods, and products can be used to solve complex sustainability challenges.