The Future of Value How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation

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Author: Eric Lowitt
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2011
Language: en
Edition: 1
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781118074527
Dimensions:
Height: 9.299194 Inches
Length: 6.2992 Inches
Weight: 1.02955876354 Pounds
Width: 0.980313 Inches
Dewey Decimal: 658.4/08
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The Future of Value: How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation by Eric Lowitt, published by Wiley on September 27, 2011, is a comprehensive exploration of how companies can leverage sustainability to enhance business performance. This 272-page book presents a framework for leaders to integrate sustainability into their competitive strategies, focusing on practical tools and methods to improve organizational effectiveness in a sustainability-conscious marketplace.

Readers will find insights on engaging stakeholders and managing sustainability initiatives to drive continuous improvement. The author outlines a systematic model that connects sustainability with growth strategies, emphasizing the importance of adapting value chain activities and corporate policies. Drawing from interviews with leaders from over 25 Global Fortune 500 companies, Lowitt provides a pragmatic approach to implementing sustainability as a core component of business success.


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Enhance business performance by using sustainability for competitive advantage

The Future of Value reveals what it takes for companies to grow and outperform the competition in today’s growth-constrained, sustainability conscious world. The author shows leaders how to use sustainability as a powerful, pragmatic lens to enhance business performance. He also explores how to craft and oversee a portfolio of effective tools, develop competitive strategies, and adjust value chain activities, talent management practices, and corporate policies to help organizations execute powerful sustainability strategies.

He provides a systematic, yet instantly familiar, model all companies can use to connect sustainability with their growth and competitive strategies. In this way, the author shows leaders how to shape, color, and own The Future of Value.

  • Outlines the keys to implementing sustainability in organizations to achieve business success today and tomorrow
  • Reveals how to engage stakeholders in day to day sustainability management as a means to shape and fuel efforts to continuously renew their sustainability strategies
  • The author is a 15-year veteran of sustainability and strategy management consulting, having worked with clients in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe. He has an MBA in Strategic Management from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and writes a regular column for Sustainable Life Media and GreenBiz, two of the world’s most heavily trafficked sustainability news and thought leadership portals

The author draws useful and accessible conclusions from a rich, diverse set of corporate interviewees. A core part of his research was the selection and interrogation of more than 25 Global Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability, strategy, and finance leads.

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