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Priority Need Task<br />

1. Knowledge of total<br />

environmental costs<br />

2. Redesign evaluation/reward<br />

systems for senior managers to<br />

include environmental<br />

performance<br />

3.a. Determine why environmental<br />

issues are targeted differently in<br />

business than issues such as<br />

quality<br />

3.b. Determine how environmental<br />

issues can be smoothly integrated<br />

in business operations<br />

3.c. Determine how environmental<br />

managers become an integral part<br />

of a business’ strategic team<br />

Strategic Business Opportunities<br />

1.a. Develop a research project to determine<br />

comprehensive environmental costs<br />

1.b. Develop new accounting tools that will<br />

accurately assign environmental costs to<br />

specific processes<br />

1.c. Test new analytical methods that are being<br />

developed<br />

1.d. Develop business tools for estimating the<br />

costs of future environmental impacts in<br />

capital budgeting<br />

2.a. Benchmark existing electronics industry<br />

environmental performance metrics<br />

2.b. Research <strong>and</strong> prepare case studies showing<br />

link between positive environmental<br />

performance <strong>and</strong> senior manager<br />

accountability/responsibility<br />

2.c. Investigate obstacles to achieving senior<br />

manager accountability/responsibility for<br />

environmental performance<br />

3.a. Develop an environmental/business<br />

curriculum<br />

3.b. Integrate environmental issues into business<br />

operations<br />

3.c. Provide necessary vocabulary <strong>and</strong><br />

underst<strong>and</strong>ing of business drivers to tie<br />

environmental issues into strategic business<br />

planning<br />

Table 2-2. Strategic business opportunities priority needs matrix.<br />

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