Creating Business Sustainability Value through Enhanced Collaboration

Blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company
Sep 30, 2011 10:19 AM ET

Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Compa…

Sustainability has been described as a continuous improvement process  that challenges business and individuals to balance personal needs with the shifting expectations of their stakeholders.  This balance can be demonstrated by a common rise in eco awareness, innovation, technological advancement, or mutually beneficial proactive change.  While sometimes seen as an overwhelming landscape of potential improvement, a common thread of ‘collaboration’ can be seen through just about every potential business sustainability action.    

Exploring this concepts, our sustainability consulting leverages a recent Industry Week post authored by several representatives A.T. Kearney which discuss, “How to create value by collaborating inside and outside the organization”.  The article focuses its attention on the strained supply chain relationships emerging from the global economic recession.  More specifically, the consultants examine the business sustainability mindset shift and resulting actions required in today’s business environment. Click here to read more on creating business sustainability value through enhanced collaboration

 

 

Home to one third of the earth's trees, the Taiga is the largest land-based biosphere and encircles the globe. Its immense oxygen production literally changes the atmosphere and refreshes the planet. It is this continuous renewal that has shaped Taiga Company's vision to drive similar change in the business world. Taiga Company seeks to be the "oxygen for your business".