As anyone who’s dipped their toe in the green arena can tell you, the pathways to sustainability are numerous; the rewards vary. It’s hard to know where to start, or if you’re on track. We've created this inventory to help you define your green priorities.
Choose among these options to explore next steps on your jouney towards sustainability.
We want to:
1. Increase product or service revenue
2. Improve my customer’s experience
If you would like to do 1, 2 or both, start here: getting green
3. Increase brand value and reputation
4. Penetrate new markets and customers
5. Create a sustainable business strategy
6. Design new products and services
If you would like to do 3-6, start here: getting and growing green
7. Control operating and environmental cost at my site (labor, materials, scrap, energy, compliance, time, travel, packaging, afterlife, etc)
8. Control assets at my site (inventory, facilities, space, cash, receivables, equipment)
If you would like to do 7, 8 or both, start here: saving green
9. Understand and exert some control over all elements of my supply or administrative chain related to operations, environment, and sustainability
10. Optimize operational, financial, and environmental aspects of my overall supply or administrative chain
If you would like to do 9, 10 or both, start here: saving and keeping green
11. Understand my organization’s readiness for green changes, successfully make the changes, and make the changes last
If you want to do 11, start here: change readiness
12. Build a general understanding of our options. We’re just getting started.
If you want to do 12, visit our Green Means Green overview