©Centre for Sustainable Action introduces investment opportunities for a sustainable future

©Centre for Sustainable Action is a cooperative created to support small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to embed sustainability within their business plans. 

We aim to support the wellbeing of entrepreneurs and business leaders to help achieve profitability and a social purpose through the development of products and services that are inherently sustainable. As a cooperative, we have the ability to raise £10 million in funding but we cannot do this alone we need the help of brilliant minds to make our mission possible. 

Join our #brilliant minds campaign at the Centre for Action to learn more register for the event by clicking on the link below.

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Understanding The Big Picture How Big Data Analytics Software Can Improve Quality, Safety And Environmental Risk Management

 

Abstract

For organizations to truly benefit from Quality 4.0, leaders must move beyond using data and computing technology to perform business-as-usual tasks toward managing the organization’s information footprint using data and information as an element of sustainability. The author outlines the 11 axes of the research institute LNS Research’s Quality 4.0 model and presents a case study showing how the model was applied to a train operating company in the United Kingdom to improve quality, safety and environmental risk management.

American Society for Quality (ASQ) Sustainability Survey

ASQ Sustainability Survey

Scan the QR Code to benchmark your Sustainability & CSR performance against best practice within your industry 

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ASQSustainabilitySurvey
 

#quality #sustainability #csr #climatechange #environment

Quality and Essesntial Element of Sustainable Development - American Society for Quality EED Summer Newsletter 2020

 

American Society for Quality EED Sutstainability Committee Strategic Plan - ASQ EED Summer Newsletter 2020

 

 

 

Sustainability Footprint: A Case of Persception in Two SMEs - American Society for Quality EED Summer Newsletter 2020

 

UN Global Climate Action Summit Affiliate Event - How to Protect Your Business from Global Megaforces

How to Protect Your Business from Global Megaforces

Top Tools for Strategic Growth and Sustainable Wealth

 Register to join our webcasts on SCSRTV during the UN Global Climate Action Summit

Dates: 12th, 13th and 14th September 2018

11am -12.30pm PST

20:00 - 21.30 GMT

3pm - 4.30pm EST

Register for my 3 hour strategy immersion session. You will develop sustainability strategy to:

1. create products and services that do not harm the environment

2. develop businesses with a social purpose 

3. achieve profitable 

We will begin your journey by understanding how your can reduce your exposure to the risks posed by global megaforces using our 10MF toolkit. 

I will demonstrate how you can use the Sustainable Strategic Growth Model to Learn, Develop, Implement, Optimise and Sustain to transform your organisation. The model has been adopted by managers and business leaders at major international organisations such as Tarmac, Ferrovial Agroman, Asanko Gold and the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society.

Included in the 3 hour immersion session we will provide you with our sustainability megaforces 10MF flashcards . 

Your personal copy of our strategy books Sustainability Footprints in SMEs - Strategy and Case Studies for Entrepreneurs and Small Business.

Start your journey by registering for our one to one sustainability strategy immersion session by clicking the link below. I look forward to our conversation

https://bit.ly/2LPvVjY

The Four Swans of Sustainability and more...

Learn more about sustainability in my easy to read, jargon free eBooks.

Get 2 eBooks for the price of 1 during European Sustainable Development Week 2018

With each eBook bundle receive a 75% discount on the online CPD accredited ©​Certificate in Sustainability Strategy  

Start your sustainability strategy journey by clicking the link below:

https://bit.ly/2LB0DNw

10 Sustainability Megaforces (10MF) Guides

Celebrate European Sustainable Development Week by future proofing your business using the SMART actions outlined in each 10MF guide.

The 10MF toolbox can be used as posters in your sustainability or CSR awareness campaign posters, on social media posts or as flashcards team building strategy sessions.

Download your toolbox by clicking the link below:

https://bit.ly/2LDmILA

#sustainability #csr #quality #ESDW #environment #sustainabilitystrategy

European Sustainable Development week 30 May - 5 June 2018

To celebrate European Sustainable Development Week #ESDW we are sharing strategic resources for business growth such as our 10 #sustainability megaforces (10MF) toolbox. 

Click the link below to get your 10MF toolbox now! 

https://bit.ly/2LDmILA 

#CSR #environment

#quality

Management Systems and Performance Frameworks for Sustainability

My second book Management Systems and Performance Frameworks for Sustainability: A Road Map for Sustainably Managed Enterprises is now available! A through an in-depth exploration of quality management theory, this book proposes a "Sustainability Management Framework" as a structure for a balanced approach to developing operations strategy for corporate social sustainability (CSR). #SustainableStrategy This book is a development in sustainable theory showing you a road map of how to put it into practice. #FutureProof Receive your complimentary copy as part of your ©Diploma in Sustainability Strategy comment below to know more. http://ow.ly/icHT30jN5RK

Garthdee Field Allotments and Community Garden Project

Garden allotments are often an overlooked mechanism to foster sustainability connecting individuals to the environment by growing food and building community engagement. In this episode I showcase the work of Stuart Oram Chairman of the Garthdee Field Allotments and Community Garden. To learn more on how you can incorporate CSR in to your business strategy, register for the upcoming Certificate in Sustainability Strategy and Diploma in Sustainability Strategy course www.SustainabilityStrategy.org 

Vattenfall European Offshore Wind Development Project Presentation

For further insight into embedding sustainability into your business. Register for the upcoming Certificate in Sustainability Strategy and Diploma in Sustainability Strategy by visiting our website www.SustainabilityStrategy.org

Back draught - the need for continuous improvement in the Wind Energy Industry

Renewable energy and in particular wind energy has seen a rapid increase in deployment within the past decade to meet the UK’s renewable energy targets. Within Scotland there has an exponential increase in renewable energy projects accounting for 61% of proposed and installed UK onshore wind farms. Onshore wind farms have also contributed to economic prosperity providing 8,600 jobs yielding £548 million in GVA. However critics claim that wind farms are not labour intensive and jobs are subsidised at a cost of £100,000 per job created. Therefore economic benefits can appear to be illusory are in spite of reductions in fossil use in the energy supply grid. The question can be asked is the wind energy revolution truly sustainable.

Although the economic costs are readily disclosed and debated in the public however the hidden cost of wind energy accidents is suppressed by the industry and externalised at times by environmental champions. Caithness Wind Farm Information Forum  an advocacy group that campaigns against wind turbines categorise wind sector accidents as Fatal accidents, Human injury, Human health, Blade failure, Fire, Structural accidents, Ice throw, Transport, Environmental damage and other miscellaneous events e.g. lightning strikes, electrical failure.
During the period 2009 – 2011 over 1500 accidents were admitted to have occurred within the wind energy sector highlighting the need for improved non-financial risk management.

Aside from the rapid expansion of the industry into offshore areas one of the root causes of the increase in accidents is the absence of industry wide standards for quality, safety and environmental management and a desire by the wind industry to value the guarantee confidentiality in regards to incident and accident reporting above organisational transparency (Fig 1). 

The UK’s Health and Safety Executive has been reticent to impose a minimum safe distance between wind turbine developments and occupied buildings and presently does not maintain a database of wind turbine failures making accident trend analysis nearly impossible. At an operational level fire brigades are at times ill-equipped to deal with wind turbine fires as working heights can be more than 80 metres. Wind farms have also accounted for the deaths of endangered birds and bats exacting an environmental toll despite the carbon friendliness of wind energy.

Within this context the Wind Industry must begin the process of standards development in consultation with all stakeholders i.e. government, NGOs and businesses to ensure that environmental claims can be substantiated and more importantly continuous improvement is embedded within the sector.

IEMA Approved Certificate in Sustainability Strategy

This course gives candidates a practical insight into the application of sustainability practices to business.

Climate change, energy and fuel consumption, the scarcity of water and material resources, population growth, wealth, urbanization, food security, the decline of the eco system and deforestation - the emergence of these sustainability mega forces within the 21st century business context have created both risks and opportunities for businesses.

The IEMA Approved Certificate in Sustainability Strategy will provide the knowledge and skills necessary to assist managers with designing strategies that will mitigate the effects of sustainability risks and enhance organisational potential to exploit opportunities.

You will study the development of effective business plans that incorporate sustainable development goals using the Sustainable Strategic Model Analysis Tool.

Subjects include:

• Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility – Context and Definition
• Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Dilemma
• Sustainable Strategic Growth Model - a solution to the Sustainability and CSR dilemma
• Sustainability Footprints – tools for growth
• The Politics of Sustainability
• Case studies

This qualification would benefit senior management, company directors, Quality Managers, Safety Managers, Environmental Managers, CSR/Sustainability Managers, Marketing and early career professionals who are involved in Sustainability/CSR implementation and reporting. 

The approach used in the course assumes no prior awareness by providing the knowledge and strategic tools to deploy sustainable development utilising best practice case studies.

For further information on our upcoming course dates and online program view our website www.sustainabilitycsr.com 

The deadly cost of product recalls

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With all the news of the recent Takata air bag recall becoming one of the biggest recalls in US history, my colleague Scott Huntington put together a study of some of the most deadly and costly product recalls to find out just how big of a deal they are. He found that over 2000 recalls happen a year, including more than 6 a day!

Takata recall - Quality more than just an airbag of hot air

We often take it for granted in the 21^st century that if a product is presented in a “new box” or a service at “new location” quality is inherent or explicit. The case of Takata airbag recall refutes this premise.

Takata supplies automotive safety systems controlling 22% of the global automotive airbag market. The company’s mission statement emphasises their commitment to quality which is to “Develop innovative products and provide superlative quality and services to achieve total customer satisfaction”.

 

This emphasis on quality is reinforced by an organisational approach the “Takata Way” that supports open effective communication openly and effectively and an adherence to Sangen-shugi the exploration of three “realities” which is comprised of Gen-ba or going to the location of the activity/problem e.g. the factory floor, Gen-butsu looking at problem first hand and Gen-jitsu gathering the facts to make a decision - realitybased decision making.

Despite this organisational philosophy Takata finds itself asleep at the wheel. Its flagship automotive airbag has allegedly been linked with the deaths of at least five motorists and over 139 injuries. The problem being a product defect that is only realised during the deployment of the airbag resulting in the rupturing of the inflator, sending metal fragments that have fatally injured unsuspecting users it was intended to protect. Potential causes for the airbag defects range from poor product handling, incorrect gas specifications, humid conditions, faulty welding to malfunctioning manufacturing equipment. 

The company was fully aware of the potential for the airbag to rupture during deployment 10 years prior to the recall but opted not to face the “reality” subsequently requesting the destruction of in-house test results and disposal of any evidence in essence creating a climate of fear amongst employees. Top management rather than implementing corrective action chose a default strategy of “do nothing” focusing on the bottom line not the triple bottom-line.

This strategic decision has resulted in the recall of over 14 million airbags from 11 different automakers and the allocation of over $655 million for quality costs. The reputational damage suffered by Takata is contributing to investor unease arising from reduced profit outlook and customer dissatisfaction with market share set to decline to 11% by 2020. Fortunately Takata has decided to “wake up to reality” taking steps to refocus the organisation efforts on quality by constituting an expert panel to examine the quality and safety issues. Quality not perception is reality.

To learn more visit our website www.sustainabilitycsr.com