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Achieving Competitive Advantage Through the Pursuit of Sustainable Business
2 December 2011
 
Stephen Stokes   Simon Mingay  

We look at the role of sustainability as an organizational capability in developing competitive advantage, and the role that sustainable business systems and IT can play in that capability.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage
    • The Business Value and Source of Competitive Advantage in Sustainability
      • Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit: Quantifying the Magnitude and Velocity of Longer-Term Advantages, Benefits and Impacts
    • The Roles of Information, the CIO and the IT Organization
      • Enabling Strategy Development
      • Enabling Organizationwide Innovation, Process and Behavior Change by Positioning the IT Organization as an Incubation Environment for Sustainable Business
      • Enabling Critical Data to Support Sustainable Business
      • Enabling Technology Platforms to Analyze, Optimize and Communicate an Organization's Sustainable Business Credentials, Plans and Outcomes
    • A Balanced Approach, Involving the IT Organization
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
How Technology Enablers Drive Competitive Advantage Outcomes
Figures
Figure 1.
Competitive Advantage and Value Delivery Through Sustainable Business Strategies
Figure 2.
The Anticipated Time to Value, Long-Term Benefit and Relative Overall Impact Achievable From Sustainable Business and Supply Chain Execution and Investment
Figure 3.
Gartner's Model of the Technology and Process Functionalities Required to Maximize Value From Sustainable Business Strategies




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