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A manufacturing trend to produce fair priced products that break after a short period of use started in late 1980s. That trend allowed manufacturers to save on quality, attract customers by low prices, and generate recurring needs to repurchase. Not surprisingly, the majority of consumers felt deceived by this approach and never returned to the same manufacturer again. Recent studies confirmed that today’s consumers would rather share and borrow high quality products than own medium or low quality ones. The public opinion analysis survey of the European Commission conducted in 2001 identified that 72% of Austrians are willing to buy second-hand products. The same is true in many other countries and the number of on-line tools designed for exchange of goods is growing rapidly on a global scale. A research conducted at Harokopio University in Greece in 2010 identified that all surveyed respondents occasionally reused, reduced, and recycled, and more than 50% did it regularly. Concep...

Gilden Tree ( gildentree.com ) is a Nebraska based company that specializes in foot, hand and body care products. The majority of their ingredients are Certified Organic or Wild-crafted and the products are effective and delightful to use. The Company originated in 1990 in Pakistan and was from the very beginning committed to environmental and ethical practices. In Pakistan, they employ village women who hand-produce the products. Wanting to give something back to the community, Gilden Tree began paying for the education of their employees’ children, and later for the education of the women themselves. The idea of providing the education  to the kids in Pakistan attracted a lot of media attention that boosted the sales over 25% and greatly benefited to the business growth. What is your CSR story? More Free resources on Social Responsibility

As a Consumer, you might be wondering how to evaluate a company’s social responsibility track record. B Lab ( www.bcorporation.net ) will help you with that. B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of entrepreneurs using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. As of today, over a 1000 corporations from 34 countries and 60 industries are certified as B Corps and are working together toward one goal: to redefine success in business. Certified B Corps pledge to meet higher standards of transparency, accountability, and performance. They offer higher quality jobs and improve the quality of life in our communities. Measure Your Company's impact on society and environment - take a free B-Assessment ! Related Training courses Social Responsibility and ISO 26000 Energ...

               by Natalia Scriabina Progress toward sustainability can be compared with an unsuccessful weight loss program. More than 20 years ago the world concluded that it was rapidly progressing toward self-destruction. The main reason for this was identified as an overconsumption and unsustainable use of natural resources (Rio, 1992). Since that time the world has developed about a thousand sustainability indicator initiatives worldwide (IISD, 2014). The world has created rapidly developing institutions, theories, schools, international standards, industry norms, and national legislation. As a global community, we sliced and diced our problem. Now we understand sustainability issues on the level of eco-systems, regions, communities, cities, financial markets, businesses, and specific production processes. We have restricted consumption, emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and created systems to iden...

Howard Rosen, former president Alza's Corporation mentioned, "Part of anything innovative is that a lot of what you fail to do." Learning from mistakes and failures as well as multiplying good practices is an essential part of innovation activities and successful business environments. On a project level such learning is realized through formal lessons learned activities. The auditor should seek to determine the effectiveness of lessons learned activities when assessing projects and continuous improvement activities. Our checklist will help the auditor to find performance gaps and opportunities for improvement in Lessons Learned Processes. Download Lessons Learned Checklist Free presentations and documents on our Downloads page .

For any business, information is an asset and has to be viewed as such. In recent years, more and more attention is paid to the security of sensitive information.. Businesses throughout the world are seeking software and information security programs that will help protect their information. In 2013 ISO published  ' ISO/IEC 27001 - Information security management ' that defined  requirements for an information security management system (ISMS). ISMS includes people, processes and IT systems and can help businesses in any sector to protect their information assets. We put together a collection of articles, links and videos that cover various areas of ISMS: Follow this board @ Pinterest for more Information Security presentations, articles and videos.

King County Metro Transit (KCM) is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, USA. It began operations on January 1, 1973, but can trace its roots to Seattle Transit, founded in 1939, and Overlake Transit Service, founded in 1927. As of 2008, it operated 1,443 buses on 223 routes and its annual ridership in 2008 was 118 million. KCM is committed to providing transportation services in an environmentally sound and responsible manner by establishing an Environmental and Sustainability Management System (ESMS). In recent years, King County Metro Transit replaced diesel buses with fuel efficient hybrid buses and added zero-emission electric vehicles .Using customer feedback to improve communication, The Eye on Your Metro Commute blog and e-mail Transit Alerts system were introduced. As a result during 2008-2011 air pollutant emissions were reduced by 10% water usage per unlinked trip - by 35% waste - by 34% Learn more about Sustainability good practices in P...

New sustainability indicators have being developed continuously: Organizations dedicated to sustainability accounting have been established in Europe and North America. Many financial markets sustainability indicators: Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes FTSE4Good Index MSCI Global Sustainability Indices  The number of standards related to sustainability is also growing: ISO 26000 Guidance on social responsibility ISO 50001 Energy management systems ISO 14000 Environment management systems OHSAS 18000 Occupational health and safety systems ISO 21929/30/31 Sustainability in building construction SO/TR 37150:2014 Smart community infrastructure IWA 9:2011 Sustainable development in business districts ISO 20121:2012 Event sustainability management systems AccountAbility AA1000 Assurance Standards Related Training courses ...

What is Social Responsibility? What is the difference between Sustainable Development and Sustained success ? What International standards were influenced by the concepts of sustainability and social responsibility? Are there ways to measure and manage social responsibility? If you are looking for the answer for those questions - please visit our reference pages Social Responsibility Facts and Links and Social Responsibility Key Terms and Definitions .