Sustainability Advantage - Development and Facilitation of Sustainability in Business Visioning Session - 06021

Project Member(s): Plant, R., Atherton, A.

Funding or Partner Organisation: NSW Department of Environment and Conservation (NSW Department of Environment and Conservation Partnership Funding)

Start year: 2006

Summary: ISF was commissioned by the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change to develop, document and deliver the Visioning module of the Sustainability Advantage program. It was felt that this long-term perspective on sustainability fills a gap in current thinking for many organisations. Workshops were used to provide businesses with the tools to develop a vision and a set of broad strategic goals to set them on the path to sustainability. The workshops gave an overview of some of the issues and opportunities for business given the new pressures on organisations to become more sustainable. Group exercises were then undertaken to analyse the organisation's current environmental impacts up and down the supply chain and well-known frameworks were used to encourage managers to think broadly about the risks and possibilities for the company. Materials and processes used in the workshops were documented and passed on to the DECC in order for other facilitators to run future sessions. It will be run in conjunction with the program s Commitment and Planning modules

FOR Codes: Organisational Planning and Management, Quality Management, Business and Management not elsewhere classified, Management, Behavioural and cognitive sciences, ISFRA-CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY, Sustainability Accounting and Reporting

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.