The Impact Challenge: Reframing Sustainability for Businesses

Book Description

This book explores the role of businesses in delivering positive societal and financial outcomes as they seek to bridge the gap between short-term organizational behaviors and long-range sustainability commitments. By addressing the inevitable data challenges associated with the strategic integration of a sustainability mindset, it enables faster adoption of social, environmental and governance metrics that generate lasting enterprise value. Inspired by the experience of practitioners that have successfully influenced the learning behaviors of complex organizations, this book helps readers drive systemic innovations as they leverage sustainability initiatives in a programmatic and intentional manner.

Features:

• Defines a toolkit to generate sustainable business value by focusing on the organizational design underpinning sustainability-oriented initiatives.
• Provides a multidisciplinary lens on shaping the impact dialogue through applied frameworks.
• Discusses the need to analytically identify an organizational learning curve before developing impact targets and framing sustainability commitments around them.
• Combines theory and practice in a practical style by presenting a variety of real-life applications at a global level.

中文：

书名：影响挑战：重塑企业的可持续性

这本书探讨了企业在寻求弥合短期组织行为和长期可持续发展承诺之间的差距时，在提供积极的社会和财务成果方面的作用。通过解决与可持续发展思维的战略整合相关的不可避免的数据挑战，它能够更快地采用社会、环境和治理指标，从而产生持久的企业价值。受成功影响复杂组织学习行为的实践者经验的启发，本书帮助读者推动系统性创新，因为他们以有计划和有目的的方式利用可持续发展倡议。

Features:

• 定义一个工具包，通过专注于支持以可持续发展为导向的倡议的组织设计来产生可持续的商业价值。
• 为通过应用框架塑造影响对话提供多学科视角。
• 讨论在制定影响目标和围绕这些目标制定可持续发展承诺之前，分析确定组织学习曲线的必要性。
• 通过在全球范围内展示各种现实应用程序，以实用的风格将理论和实践结合在一起。