Corporate Sustainability Planning Assessment Guide : A Comprehensive Organizational Assessment, (With CD-ROM)

Corporate sustainability planning has risen in prominence over the past few years among leading organizations as a tool to achieve strategic dominance within the global marketplace. This manual is designed to serve as an easy-to-use guide for an organization’s cross-functional self-assessment team(s) to assess and score its corporate sustainability efforts.

This manual can be used to provide a due diligence for an organization’s corporate sustainability efforts, and to provide a template for its self-assessment and strategic planning regarding corporate sustainability efforts. In addition, the manual provides guidance for employees and employee teams to score their departments or total organization in many areas. It can also be used to help employees collect sustainability data to benchmark against other best-practice organizations.

Corporate sustainability planning for an organization builds on its core values, and can provide direction and rationale for the integration of sustainability principles among employees, vendors, and customers. The manual will help an organization identify and strategically address sustainability opportunities that will:
Increase revenue and reduce costs
Enhance the organization’s reputation, brand, and market value
Better attract and retain talented employees
Mitigate regulatory and business risks
Address key economic, environmental, and social issues within the organization

Included on an accompanying CD-ROM are all the assessment forms and resources included in the book's chapters and appendices.

Dedication
CD-ROM Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 : How to Assess Your Organization for Corporate Sustainability Planning
Chapter 2 : How to Use The Manual
Chapter 3 : Category 1 : Leadership
Chapter 4 : Category 2 : Strategic Planning
Chapter 5 : Category 3 : Customer Focus
Chapter 6 : Category 4 : Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management
Chapter 7 : Category 5 : Workforce Focus
Chapter 8 : Category 6 : Process Management
Chapter 9 : Category 7 : Results
Chapter 10 : Transforming Assessment Findings into Actionable Strategies for a Corporate Sustainability Plan

Appendix A : Quick and Easy Supplier/Customer Assessment for Corporate Sustainability
Appendix B : Corporate Sustainability Benchmarking Process
Appendix C : Checklist for 100 Corporate Sustainability Considerations to Benchmark
Appendix D : Interviewing Hints and Tips
Appendix E : Corporate Sustainability Documentation List
Appendix F : Corporate Green Sustainability Index (CGSI)
Appendix G : Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index
Appendix H : Glossaries of Performance Excellence and Sustainability Terms

Reference List of Added Reading
Notes
Index
About The Author