Sustainagility - How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Help Protect our Future (Hardcover)

Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations. The book looks at how innovation and agility can save the world from the environmental disasters that face it. In addition, it sets forth positive ways in which businesses and individuals can deal with the issues and positively benefit from them. Sustainagility 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 companies that have successfully used innovative and agile ideas and 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.

General

Imprint:	Kogan Page
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Patrick Dixon • Johan Gorecki
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-7494-6083-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
LSN:	0-7494-6083-0
Barcode:	9780749460839

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