Integrated Management has been endorsed by Consultants, scientists like Micheal Mann at Univ of Pennsylvania, Stuart Hart and Andy Winston at the University of Michigan, Sandra Waddock at Boston College, Eben Goodstein at Bard, Mike Toffel at Harvard, Paul Polman at Unilever, Karl Henrik Robert in Sweden, John Ehrenfeld at MIT, Judith Samuelson at The Aspen Institute, and Glen Dowell at Cornell.
The Table of Contents includes:
Section I. Awareness – A Dynamic Performance Frontier
- Chapter 1. The Integration Opportunity
- Chapter 2. Managing Complexity
- Chapter 3. Enabling Integration
- Chapter 4. Integration Operationalized: A Customized Approach
- Section II. Awareness – Building Shared Understanding
- Chapter 5. Integration Across Business Functions
- Chapter 6. Creating Stakeholder Value
- Chapter 7. Shareholder Value
- Section III. Assessing the Current Reality (As Is)
- Chapter 8. Design Thinking – Life Cycle Assessment
- Chapter 9. Enterprise Systems – Operational and Strategic Assessment
- Section IV. Brainstorming Actions to Close the Gap (To Be)
- Chapter 10. The Changing Performance Frontier – Evolution and Trends
- Chapter 11. Crossing the Chasm – Evidence and Opportunity
- Chapter 12. Propositions: Key Insights for Financial Decision-Making
- Section V. Prioritization – Action
- Chapter 13. The Strategic Integrated Enterprises We Have Been Waiting For
- Chapter 14. Measurement and Alignment Opportunities
- Chapter 15. The Future – What Could Be!
Within the chapters, readers will find action-learning opportunities, AI prompts, and reflective exercises to think about, apply, and enable the integration of sustainability across any business function. Readers can explore existing external drivers, internal enablers, and performance metrics for ESG, and the UNSDGs, to see how sustainability is already adding value to any business.
Today’s solutions are social and technical. We have the technical feasibility; it’s already in place and evolving. The social will to create new norms involves systems thinking and analytics to tackle one of the biggest opportunities of our time, “sustainable development.” Integrated management comes when we realise a decision’s impacts go well beyond a single bottom line and single functional perspective. Integrated management can be measured across functions, firms, and value chains in multidimensional ways.
This book starts by suggesting a new vision of a performance frontier beyond using sustainability terminology. Integrated management allows us to rethink functions, enterprises, and systems dynamics to reduce waste and create value. Critical drivers and enablers provide decision-makers and policymakers with ways to take on complex problems. As larger systems-level problems are addressed and disassembled into smaller systems within systems, every enterprise can contribute to and have a vision for its own sustainable future. With the application of a strategic sustainable development framework, strategic planning, and backcasting from your vision, readers will find integrated management opportunities and manage change toward success.
Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for any Business is for decision-makers and lifelong students globally who want to integrate sustainability into business strategy and management practices. Endorsed by practitioners, thought leaders, academics, and change agents, this second edition builds on the success of the first edition. It includes more evidence of integration already underway at multinational companies' operational, tactical, and strategic level practices. Within each chapter, readers can take new highlight actions to enable change and build on best practices. The company examples, frameworks, methods, and action learning approach serve as a roadmap as you navigate across enterprises and interconnected systems to create your vision and action plan for the future.