The Bottom Line Of Green Is Black

And, as every successful businessperson and environmentalist realizes, daily choices create long-term, bottom-line effects.

To date, both internal and external corporate environmental reporting and management systems have focused on physical input–output measures. However, external stakeholders are increasingly demanding that organisations provide more financial information about the costs and benefits of their environmental actions. As environmental costs rise, internal decision-makers are also seeking such information to ensure that money is well spent. Beyond basic compliance, many companies will not countenance environmental actions for which a "business case" cannot be made. A number of companies – such as Baxter, BT, Xerox, Zeneca and others – are now beginning to develop a better understanding of the costs and benefits of environmental action. The US Environmental Protection Agency has also done considerable work on models designed to understand the "full costs" of pollution control investments, with the aim of demonstrating that – when these are properly considered – pollution prevention can be a more cost-effective alternative. The Green Bottom Line brings together much of the world's leading research and best-practice case studies on the topic. Divided into four sections, covering "General Concepts", "Empirical Studies", "Case Studies" and "Implementation", the book includes case studies from the US EPA's Environment Accounting Programme and contributions from authors at institutions including the IMD, INSEAD, Tellus Institute and the World Resources Institute. It constitutes a state-of-the-art collection.

In the highly praised The Market for Virtue, David Vogel presents a clear, balanced analysis of the contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in the United States and Europe. In this updated paperback edition, Vogel discusses recent CSR initiatives and responds to new developments in the CSR debate. He asserts that while the movement has achieved success in improving some labor, human rights, and environmental practices in developing countries, there are limits to improving corporate conduct without more extensive and effective government regulation. Put simply, Vogel believes that there is a market for virtue, but it is limited by the substantial costs of socially responsible business behavior. Praise for the cloth edition: "The definitive guide to what corporate social responsibility can and cannot accomplish in a modern capitalist economy."—Robert B. Reich, Brandeis University, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor "Vogel raises a number of excellent points on the present and future of CSR."—Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School "A useful corrective to the view that CSR alone is the full answer to social problems."—Business Ethics "The study combines sound logic with illustrative cases, and advances the sophistication of the CSR debate considerably." —John G. Ruggie, Harvard University, co-architect of UN Global Compact

Effective Process Management: Improving Your Healthcare Delivery Kenneth Rohde 99.9% success is not good enough If we had 99.9% quality There would be 500 incorrect surgical operations performed each week 19,000 newborn babies would be dropped at birth by doctors each year Fast food franchises would serve 8 bad hamburgers EVERY MINUTE! You cannot afford for the processes in your facility to be anything less than perfect. "Effective Process Management: Improving Your Healthcare Delivery" will show you how to identify where certain processes fail or how they might fail in the future, and how to make preventative adjustments. Through process mapping, FMEAs, and change management strategies, author Ken Rohde gives you actionable tips and tools you can use to break down your current process into the micro-steps which comprise them, evaluate where those processes are at risk, and learn how you can prevent them from failing. This book will help users: Identify several of the top processes in patient care and map whether they fail or where they might fail in the future Effectively train and educate staff members to implement changes in their daily activities to support process improvement Evaluate any given process for risk and effectiveness Improve overall facility operations, as efficient processes create fewer barriers to providing safe patient care, which translates to increased revenue and improved patient satisfaction Table of Contents Chapter 1: The vital importance of Process Management Chapter 2: Where to start? Define your List of Processes Chapter 3: Step 1: Mapping & Understanding your processes Chapter 4: Step 2: Evaluating your process for Risk Chapter 5: Step 3: Evaluating your process for effectiveness and efficiency Chapter 6: Step 4: Manage Change Chapter 7: Step 5: Communicate your Process through effective Policies, Procedures & Checklists Chapter 8: Step 6: Matching the work environment to your process Chapter 9: Step 7: Monitoring your process for Outcomes and exceptions Chapter 10: Keep on doing it Chapter 11: Summary of Tips & Tools

Lean Six Sigma is helping to vitalize many small and large organizations by paying attention to the customer’s needs and providing processes with smaller amounts of variation to consistently meet and even exceed those needs. This task is completed when the organization understands its processes better and controls those inputs and the process variations that will affect the customer’s needs the most.The intent of this book is to develop the concepts of the Twelve Pillars, which support the Six Sigma improvement process, tie this to both the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and lean, and then to cover the areas that should be considered during the implementation of the Six Sigma process. The executive management of every organization must read this book to establish the foundation for the Lean Six Sigma concepts to hold and become part of the operating style of the corporation. The tools discussed in this book are just as applicable to making management decisions based on data as they are for the Black Belts and Knowledge Workers of the process. Each chapter has a list of questions at the end intended to prod thoughts concerning concepts covered in the chapter.

Teaching Key Stage 2 Music (ages: 7-11) is a complete step-by-step scheme of work for both specialist and non-specialist teachers. The book is carefully constructed to help teachers meet curriculum requirements and deliver music in an exciting and creative way, and includes detailed lesson plans yet also provides the flexibility for teachers to create their own. The book contains plenty of songs and rhymes, listening recommendations and assessment grids and provides fantastic audio and visual support. The Enhanced CD contains photocopiable lyrics and worksheets for easy printing/projection as well as backing tracks and full performances of all the songs contained within.

The city of Nishapur, located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance in medieval times and a flourishing center of art, crafts, and trade. This publication studies the pottery found at the site at Nishapur excavated by the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum in 1935–40 and again in 1947. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.