This book is an evidence-based how-to resource for integrating the Inspirational Paradigm for Jesuit Business Education. Faculty and students will find action learning activities and integration exercises in each chapter aimed at making the intangible tangible, while showcasing best practices by top-ranked companies. It’s easy to say sustainability is important, yet not so easy to understand how it is part of the decisions that are made every day and how it cuts across business functions, systems, and supply chains. The information within this book, the application of systems thinking to complex problems, the development of a vision and action plan, your own research, and action learning activities are all designed to accelerate management action, value creation, and the goal of a sustainable future.
Each chapter includes applied learning that can be explicitly aligned with the Inspirational Paradigm, and asks what’s your Integrated Enterprise (IntEnt) questions, along with templates for a customizable integrated management strategy statement; strategic sustainability assessment; use of the social cost of carbon dioxide in financial decision analysis; and the creation of a vision and action plan for any reader.
Table of Contents
SECTION I
A DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE FRONTIER – BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 1 The Integration Opportunity
Chapter 2 Critical Dimensions of Integration – Enablers
Chapter 3 A Customized Approach for Any Enterprise
SECTION II
BUILD SHARED UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 4 Integration Across Disciplines
Chapter 5 Value Creation for Stakeholders and Shareholders
SECTION III
ASSESSING THE CURRENT REALITY (As Is)
Chapter 6 Design Thinking – Life Cycle Assessment
Chapter 7 Enterprise Systems – Operational & Strategic Assessment
Section IV
BRAINSTORMING ACTIONS TO CLOSE THE GAP (To Be)
Chapter 8 The Changing Performance Frontier – Evolution & Trends
Chapter 9 Crossing the Chasm – Evidence & Opportunity
Chapter 10 Propositions – Integration and Innovation
Section V
PRIORITIZATION – ACTION
Chapter 11 The Strategic Integrated Enterprises We Have Been Waiting For
Chapter 12 The Future – What Could Be (Beyond Sustainability)?
Thank you for your interest in Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for any Business. The use of this book helps to renew business curricula, align with the Ignatian pedagogical Paradigm, provide a vision of the essential skills needed for this new kind of integrated leadership, and inform decision-making by including the role of stakeholders. The book is written for use in Business School courses with an evidence-based approach to learning enabling students to find best practices and what is already happening in industry.
Each chapter includes applied learning, what’s your Integrated Enterprise (IntEnt) questions, along with templates for a customizable integrated management strategy statement; strategic sustainability assessment; use of the social cost of carbon dioxide in financial decision analysis; and the creation of a vision and action plan for any reader.
The hope is that you and your students find Integrated Management useful as we take on wicked problems with informed decision-makers, evidence-based management, and value creation that will include an Integrated Bottom Line (IBL).
Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business, Emerald Press
Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business
A resource enabling the Inspirational Education Paradigm for Jesuit Business School’s Sustainability courses, curriculum integration, and supplemental reading for core courses. The new educational paradigm has numerous elements that make it relevant, effective, meaningful, and aligned for Jesuit leadership in business management. The use of this book helps to renew business curricula, align with the Ignatian pedagogical paradigm, provide a vision of the essential skills needed for this new kind of integrated leadership, and inform decision-making by including the role of stakeholders. The use of this book in the curriculum can address student's hungers or desires that drive and inspire their idealism and their sense of hope. Exercises and applied learning show how sustainability, i.e., environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is already part of every business function.
Endorsed by the CEO of Unilever Paul Polman, John Elkington, Scholars from Harvard, MIT, Boston College, American University, The Aspen Institute, The Living Futures Institute, and industry consultants, the book is a valuable resource for business management pedagogy.