Becoming a Sustainable Organization : A Project and Portfolio Management Approach

Title: Becoming a Sustainable Organization : A Project and Portfolio Management Approach
Author: Kristina Kohl
ISBN: 1498700810 / 9781498700818
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 340
Publisher: Auerbach
Year: 2016
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks.

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Organizations find that a performance gap exists between sustainability vision and benefits realization. Effecting transformational change requires incorporating sustainability into organization’s culture including policies, processes, and people. Although they are often overlooked, project management professionals and HR professionals are valuable organizational resources for driving sustainable transformation. This book lays out a framework to improve sustainability integrations including case studies, lessons learned, best practices, and tools and templates to facilitate transforming into a sustainable organization.

Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management Approach lays out a framework to create organizational value while preserving natural and social capital. The book provides a roadmap for organizations during their sustainability journey by sharing case studies, best practices, and lessons learned, as well as tools and techniques to drive change.

This book is an ideal resource for project and portfolio managers, as well as executive managers, in organizations that are embarking on a sustainability journey. It explains how to engage both internal and external stakeholders in order to reframe strategy to drive this transformation. It examines the role human capital management professionals and policies can play in ensuring that employees become fully engaged in sustainability. It also recommends baseline measurements and metrics to help managers ensure sustainability initiatives remain on track.

The case studies and interviews in this book include sustainability stories and projects from a variety of organizations in both function and size, including family-owned businesses, higher-education institutions, NGOs, municipal and federal government agencies, and large global organizations. These cases are based on interviews with experienced sustainability and project management professionals who have not just "talked the talk" but also "walked the walk."

The voices of these professionals provide invaluable inspiration and guidance to sustainability champions and to program and project managers seeking to move their sustainability portfolio components forward within their organizations.

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  • Discusses techniques to close the Sustainability Performance Gap
  • Explains how to create a culture of sustainability
  • Develops methods for keeping stakeholders engaged
  • Reviews human capital tools and techniques for embedding sustainability
  • Identifies key role for project management professionals in sustainability adoption and strategy execution
  • Presents unique case studies from a broad section of industries
  • Shares best practices and lessons learned form sustainability experts
  • Includes downloadable templates from a companion website: becomingsustainable.org

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Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author

Chapter 1 : What is Sustainability? Why Does It Matter?
Chapter 2 : Building the Business Case for Sustainability
Chapter 3 : Gaining Stakeholder and C-Suite Support and Sponsorship
Chapter 4 : Alignment of Business and Sustainability Strategy Creates Sustainable Strategy
Chapter 5 : Project Management Techniques Inform Sustainable Strategy Development
Chapter 6 : Creating a Culture of Sustainability
Chapter 7 : Portfolio Management Supports Strategic Sustainability Alignment
Chapter 8 : Identifying and Engaging External Stakeholders
Chapter 9 : Leveraging Organizational Relationships and Assets
Chapter 10 : Leveraging Human Capital Professionals
Chapter 11 : Adopting a Culture of Change to Unlock the Benefits of Sustainable Strategy
Chapter 12 : Sustainable Strategy as a Lever to Attract, Engage, and Retain the Workforce
Chapter 13 : Tools and Techniques to Embed Sustainability
Chapter 14 : Selecting Goals and Metrics that Matter
Chapter 15 : Celebrating Success

Index