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1 online resource (29 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Whether you are undertaking the exercises for your own purposes or with the intent of completing a certification course in sustainable development, this Workbook will be of help. The companion text for this publication is The Sustainable Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness (2nd edition). Read the companion text thoroughly before beginning this Workbook. Follow a step-by-step approach using the 7-P Roadmap to Sustainability Model and work your way through the seven sections that comprise the companion text (Preparation, Processes, Preservation, People, Place, Product and Production). This Workbook focuses on Waste Elimination. A forthcoming Workbook will focus on Resource Extension. This Workbook will increase your knowledge and understanding, subject-specific skills and personal and transferable skills. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Before you begin ... ; The 7-P Model; The benefits of working through the step-by-step approach to sustainability; PREPARATION; Energy; External: Market price assessment; Internal: Costs assessment; Raw materials or system inputs; External: Market cost assessment; Internal: Cost assessment; Waste disposal costs; Total internal annual waste; Changes in waste legislation; Changes in environmental laws; Raw material procurement; Changes in customer expectations and demands; Establishing new policies and objectives; PROCESSES; Exterior; Cooperative networks; Interior. |
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Lean thinkingPRESERVATION; External measurement; Internal measurement; PEOPLE; Employee education and involvement; Assessment of future human resource requirements; Assessment of future customer markets; Job security and job creation; PLACE; Exterior waste elimination and prevention; Interior waste elimination and prevention; Unforeseen results after implementation; Waste elimination (by unit); Waste elimination: cost savings; Lessons learned; PRODUCT; Raw materials and system inputs; Interior waste: elimination and prevention; Exterior waste: elimination and prevention. |
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Waste elimination (by unit)Overall material (or system) cost savings; PRODUCTION; Interior analysis; Process map; Process map analysis; Exterior analysis; Synergistic networks; Total: interior/exterior waste; Waste elimination (by unit); Overall estimated cost savings; RESULTS; TOTAL: waste-elimination estimates; Total waste elimination (PLACE/PRODUCT/PRODUCTION); TOTAL: estimated cost savings; TOTAL cost savings (PLACE/PRODUCT/PRODUCTION); TOTAL: job security and job creation; TOTAL: Increases in productivity and revenues; About the Authors; Back Cover. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Industrial management -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Industrial management. |
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Problems and exercises.
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Sustainability -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Sustainability. |
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Social responsibility of business -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Social responsibility of business. |
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Factory and trade waste -- Management -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Factory and trade waste -- Management. |
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Electronic books.
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Problems and exercises.
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Stahel, Walter R., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scott, Jonathan (Jonathan T.). Sustainable business workbook. Sheffield : Greenleaf Publishing, 2013 9781906093846 (OCoLC)827952086 |
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9781909493070 (electronic book) |
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1909493074 (electronic book) |
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9781906093846 |
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1906093849 |
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