Is there a relationship between sustainability (and all its related topics) and quality / performance excellence frameworks, organizational effectiveness?
We did some research and here is what we found out: Almost everybody has a "green" initiative and its deployment varies extensively. Some organizations (ex. non-profit healthcare) have strong social responsibility components incorporated into their business and the "green" initiative is relatively new, separate from quality assurance of operations. Sometimes, if there is a Lean Six Sigma deployment, it is leveraged to include and support the "green" deployment and processes. B Corporations Some books: -Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston -Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart -Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins -Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model by Ray Anderson -The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity by Nicholas Stern |