Sustainagility: How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies Will Help Protect our Future - Rilegato

Dixon, Patrick; Gorecki, Johan

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ISBN 10: 0749460830 ISBN 13: 9780749460839

Casa editrice: Kogan Page Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Innovation and agility will solve most of the greatest threats to our planet’s ecosystem, argue Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki. In Sustainagility, they suggest positive ways that businesses and individuals can address these threats while making a profit.

Sustainagility covers how to encourage green innovation inside an organization, how to develop green technologies faster, and how to adapt rapidly to stay ahead of competition. It includes text boxes containing shocking statistics about the destruction of our planet, short inspiring examples of how innovation has created new profitable business and helped the world, and personal messages from global leaders about sustainable innovation. Case studies of numerous well-known, high-profile companies are featured, demonstrating that companies have successfully used innovative and agile processes to improve their businesses and fight some of the greatest threats to the world's ecosystems.
Subjects covered include: Power; future cities; transport; manufacturing; water and wood; health and food; venture capital; carbon offsetting and banks; business agility and open innovation; 10 steps to profitable sustainability.

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Descrizione del libro:

Contains shocking statistics about the destruction of our planet

Includes case studies from Air France-KLM, Apple, Coca Cola, DHL, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, IKEA and Unilever

Provides high-profile examples of how innovation has created new profitable business and helped the world

Includes personal messages from global leaders about sustainable innovation

L'autore:

Patrick Dixon is one of the world's leading authorities on future trends. Ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50, 2005), he is also Chairman of Global Change Ltd. and the author of 12 other books, including Futurewise and Building a Better Business. He speaks to thousands of business leaders every year about sustainagility. His clients include Microsoft, Google, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, AT&T, Siemens, Ford, Airbus, KLM/Air France, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.
Johan Gorecki is founder/owner and CEO of the Globe Forum, an internationally recognized marketplace for innovators and investors working for a more sustainable and profitable future. He is the founder of the Globe Award, the leading sustainability prize for innovations, corporate academia and cities. He is also an entrepreneur, and a part of the team that developed Skype.

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• Editore: Kogan Page Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0749460830
• ISBN 13: 9780749460839
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 217