Systematic Review - Network for Business Sustainability
Systematic Review - Network for Business Sustainability
Systematic Review - Network for Business Sustainability
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OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION SYSTEMS BUILDING<br />
Process innovation<br />
• Design <strong>for</strong> sustainability: Redesign existing<br />
processes through incremental innovation:<br />
e.g. use tools to support SOI by addressing<br />
single issues such as pollution control; modify<br />
and redesign processes to address resource<br />
use, waste and pollution<br />
• Use available tools such as environmental<br />
management systems and life cycle analysis<br />
to integrate sustainability into processes<br />
• Adopt sustainable supply chain management<br />
practices and ensure suppliers are operating<br />
sustainably<br />
Product innovation<br />
• Use design tools to redesign products to<br />
address sustainability considerations: e.g.<br />
dematerialization<br />
• Reduce materials’ impacts and products’<br />
energy consumption<br />
• Design “green” from the outset: e.g. integrate<br />
recovery, reuse and disposal thinking early in<br />
the design process; set targets early<br />
• Ensure functionality is not compromised<br />
Knowledge management<br />
• Exploit existing knowledge management<br />
capabilities to identify and access relevant<br />
knowledge; reframe internal communications<br />
to a focus on sustainability; unlearn existing<br />
knowledge that contradicts the firm’s<br />
sustainability principles<br />
• Fill competence gaps through training,<br />
targeted recruitment and the import of<br />
expertise; integrate diverse elements of TBL<br />
considerations across the firm by issuing<br />
guidelines and monitoring compliance<br />
Process innovation<br />
• Adopt new process plat<strong>for</strong>ms such as closedloop<br />
manufacturing and cradle-to-cradle<br />
innovation<br />
• Develop new networks into the wider social,<br />
economic, legislative systems and, particularly,<br />
into supply chains; develop long-term<br />
collaborative approaches with external partners<br />
• Start from a vision of the future and work<br />
backward, rather than moving <strong>for</strong>ward from the<br />
present; set audacious goals even when the<br />
route may be unclear<br />
Product innovation<br />
• Adopt a servitization strategy: supplement or<br />
replace products with services<br />
• Search <strong>for</strong> product innovation ideas in new<br />
areas: e.g. use biomimicry and engage with<br />
bottom-of-the-pyramid customers<br />
• Be attentive to disruptive and systemschanging<br />
innovation happening elsewhere<br />
• Learn lessons from local firms and from new<br />
innovation plat<strong>for</strong>ms such as frugal innovation<br />
Innovating <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sustainability</strong> 21