Michael Hopkins, Editor in Chief, MIT Sloan Management Review: Implementing Sustainability in...

Post on 20-Jan-2015

797 views 0 download

Tags:

description

Year long research project, to identify the most important aspects of the challenges of managing for sustainability.

Transcript of Michael Hopkins, Editor in Chief, MIT Sloan Management Review: Implementing Sustainability in...

(So that you’re ready for the quiz…)

The more you know, the more you do

Sustainability will transform how we manage*

*whether we care about it or not

(A note, with regard to who we’re talking to…)

The Business of Sustainability: Findings

More than 92% addressing sustainability

The Business of Sustainability: Findings

More than 92% addressing sustainability

Fewer than 25% decreased sustainability $$ in downturn

The Business of Sustainability: Findings

More than 92% addressing sustainability

Fewer than 25% decreased sustainability $$ in downturn

70% had not developed business case

The Business of Sustainability: Findings

More than 92% addressing sustainability

Fewer than 25% decreased sustainability $$ in downturn

70% had not developed business case

Enormous divide between “experts” and “novices”

Sustainability & value creation—what execs don’t get. (Yet.)

4. You Can’t Get There From Here…But You Can From Somewhere Else

Iterative innovation Seeing the “system,”

connecting the dots. (A lens change)

The new “optionality”

3. The 16% Solution

Talent Taking

human capital seriously

2. The New Best Proxy for Management Quality

(i.e., the

new “safety”)

1. Closing the Trust Gap

Risk & resiliency

Transparency The most

attractive partner in the world

Organizations are the way that ideas change the world.