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Green Purchasing Power
As stakeholders become increasingly insistent that 'promises made' by the CEO become 'promises delivered', business leaders will need to extract and manage increasing innovation from suppliers as well as employees to deliver on commitment to sustainable performance.
Released: June 2008
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Sustainable Performance
Scratch the surface of many companies' claims on sustainable performance and what lies beneath leaves much to be desired. Research by Arthur D. Little, for example, shows that even among Nordic companies, widely regarded as among the most environmentally responsible of corporate citizens, the response to the challenge of sustainability lacks rigour.
Released: June 2008
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Sustainable Performance Delivered
Having established the connection between Integrity + Innovation = Sustainable Performance CEO's now need to establish how to deliver the concept. In this second paper of the series Arthur D. Little’s demonstrates I plus I in the real world going on to show how companies such as GE, Dow and Novo Nordisk are unlocking value through sustainable business.
Released: May 2008
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The role of green branding in the race to innovate world energy markets
At "Solutions for Sustainability", the 12th Annual Conference of the German-British Forum held in London on 11th and 12th October 2007, David Lyon, Senior Manager, Sustainability and Risk, Arthur D. Little UK, emphasized the role of green branding. He comments: "We are seeing consumer-driven market innovation. With green electricity tariffs, some consumers are willing to pay an ecological premium. Green branding plays an increasingly important role - especially when public policy is increasingly supportive of new decentralized generation technologies."
For more information on the 2007 conference visit: http://www.gbf.com/gbf/speakers22007.asp
For articles on sustainability by David Lyon and other ADL consultants visit our PRISM website.
Released: January 2008
The Carbon Margin
The Carbon Margin urges all business sectors to view emerging carbon constraints as an opportunity to develop new profit streams and gain competitive advantage. The report provides a guide to the specific risks and opportunities carbon exposure presents for each major industry sector, and explains how a profitable carbon strategy is conceived: through a careful balancing of technological innovations with customer-based solutions.
Released: December 2007
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Low Carbon London (English)
Now is the time for action - and London leads the way! A Victorian terraced home with a twist, No.1 Lower Carbon Drive, opened on the 4th of December to provide Londoners with examples of ways in which they can alter their homes and domestic lifestyles to reduce the city’s CO2 emissions. Management consultancy Arthur D. Little worked with the London Development Agency (LDA) to develop the model home as part of the mayor’s Climate Change Action Plan. The Plan aims to encourage all Londoners and businesses to help in reducing the capital’s carbon dioxide emissions to 60 per cent below 1990 levels by 2025.
Released: December 2007
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New Report: integrity + innovation = performance
The Sustainability Value Formula examines how leading companies are building long-term sustainable performance through an intense focus on integrity and innovation. This paper brings clarity to the issues of where and how corporate responsibility delivers value to the firm – issues that until now have been clouded by much confusion and ambiguity. We preview research which indicates that the key ingredients to long-term sustainable performance are the fundamental value drivers: integrity and innovation.
Released: August 2007
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The Innovation High Ground
This report examines how leading companies are using sustainability-driven innovation to win customers for the future. Arthur D. Little collaborated with Hedstrom Associates to survey 40 technology companies in Europe, the US and Japan to see how they are creating new market space, products, services or processes driven by social, environmental or sustainability issues.
Released: July 2005
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A Director's Guide to Corporate Responsibility Reporting
This guide was compiled by a team comprising Arthur D Little, Business in the Community, Camelot and HBOS.
The guide is designed to help directors and senior managers consider how best to develop an effective reporting strategy for corporate responsibility (CR). It helps directors and senior managers understand their current CR reporting strategy and the key issues they need to consider in order to deliver greater value to their business and those they are reporting to.
Released: July 2005
Business Case for Corporate Responsibility
In 2003, Arthur D. Little collaborated with Business in the Community to produce a concise report on current thinking on the business case for corporate responsibility, arguing that specific corporate responsibility initiatives and programmes require specific business cases. This report provides some generic arguments to engage decision-makers in the value of corporate responsibility and has proved to be extremely useful for companies just starting to develop effective corporate responsibility strategy.
Released: December 2003
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