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Suzanne Pinckney

Elon Musk's Latest Innovation: Bonds Backed by Rooftop Solar Power - 0 views

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operations innovation bonds finance solar power energy step 7

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  • Suzanne Pinckney on 25 Nov 13
     
    game changer in financing and renewables
Suzanne Pinckney

When It Comes to CSR, Size Matters - Forbes - 0 views

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business case csr forbes insead

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 16 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • t rests on the recognition that attention to corporate social and environmental responsibilities is generally in the long-term economic interests of the firm.
  • Managers have a responsibility to consider those affected by company actions; equally, however, those stakeholders are often able to exert pressure on a company if it does not—even to the extent of shutting down the business, as Coca-Cola found in Kerala.  This is particularly true for large companies subject to intense media scrutiny.
  • When companies implement “strategic CSR” they can find there are many benefits, including strengthened corporate and brand reputations and enhanced trust with key stakeholders (customers, employees, regulatory agencies, suppliers, and investors), improved risk management, increased revenues from innovation to identify new business opportunities, and reduced costs from efficiency improvements. 
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  • profound differences in commitment to corporate purpose. 
  • This close involvement of owners and founders in SMEs means that commitment to purpose is much easier to engender than in a large, publicly-held corporation. 
  • more personal. 
  • SMEs increasingly find that they are part of a value chain where a large company downstream (for example, a major brand or a retailer) is demanding attention by suppliers to sustainability metrics and performance.
  • ikely to mean that less funds are available to invest in initiatives that might be socially or environmentally beneficial, especially if the economic pay-off is less obvious or longer term.
  • SMEs might also be less able to bring to scale the efficiency gains that can come from attention to CSR or exploit the business opportunities that might come through innovation in the form of new, more sustainable products. 
  • In sum, while size matters, not least in what gets done, SMEs have many of the same reasons for engaging in CSR that large companies have, both in avoiding downside risk and in exploiting upside opportunities.  In many cases, they may also be more intrinsically, if not better motivated, to give CSR attention.
  • Suzanne Pinckney on 16 Aug 13
     
    biz case for our biz! susty works and is necessary at any size :)
Suzanne Pinckney

Cilantro Purifies Drinking Water in Developing Countries Cheaply and Sustainably | Inha... - 0 views

inhabitat.com/-water-in-developing-countries

step 7 innovation water biomimicry

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  • Suzanne Pinckney on 13 Sep 13
     
    elegant solution
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Creativity - Extended Interview - Peter Sims - 0 views

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step 7 laughter fun creativity innovation experimentation testing prototype

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 09 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • So, improvisation and humor really lubricate the skids for creativity as a group, and then, also, allow people to not censor their ideas too prematurely, which is obviously really important.
  • if you’re laughing, you’re more likely to have a more relaxed state of mind and you’re more likely to be in a creative state of mind. Humor removes some of the barriers and some of the self-consciousness.
  • make it so people are very comfortable working with ambiguity and fighting through setbacks and failure, in order to solve problems in more creative ways.
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  • Luck Isn’t Random. It’s A Skill.
  • people who tend to be more lucky have a much more open stance to their world. They interact with people at gatherings or parties who are different from them. They’re just more open to different types of people, and unlucky people tend to just stick to their very own type, people who are of similar backgrounds, similar educational backgrounds, etc.
  • “I’m going to try this for a few weeks and I’m going to see where it gets me. Then I’m going to check in again and I’m going to measure the progress. I’m going to take stock and I’m going to make a decision then about whether to keep going in that direction or to shift.”
  • The willingness to spend 5 to 10% of your time doing experiments will, over the long run, really open up that part of you that can be more creative and entrepreneurial, and yield, hopefully, some new opportunities that you hadn’t thought of before trying something.
  • “Yes. That looks good and what if we did this,” instead of saying, “I don’t like that idea,” and just throwing it out completely.
  • you take the good elements and then you make them better and you constantly do this until you get to perfection.
  • The term for these people is “experimental innovators” – those who learn from each little mistake and piece together what ends up being something great, whether it’s a comedy act or a building or a piece of music. It just doesn’t come without lots of setback and toil.
Suzanne Pinckney

Seth's Blog: Will you choose to do it live? - 0 views

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process

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Consultants do most of their best work live (asking questions, innovating answers) while novelists virtually never do their work live.
  • Scale and impact can certainly come from creating your best work and sharing it in a reliable way. On the other hand, if you're going to be live, then yes, do it live. 
  • Suzanne Pinckney on 25 Feb 13
     
    do it Live!
  • Cortney McDermott on 26 Feb 13
     
    Yes - do it Live! No Fear. Only Love.
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Value Proposition Statement: How to Articulate It, Quickly - 0 views

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public relations marketing reporting

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 22 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Here it is:
  • As Adeo Ressi of the Founder Institute notes in the article "Mad Libs for Pitches" on TechCrunch: When completing an exercise like this, too many people "add useless adjectives, define their audience too vaguely and have a weak value proposition."
  • Suzanne Pinckney on 22 Feb 13
     
    this could be the best first step to discovering the WHY at kamik, or anywhere else, to build the authentic story for their csr communications
  • Cortney McDermott on 26 Feb 13
     
    Let's start with "We help X do Y, so that Z." Then, once we have a product (or product suite), let's introduce this formula.
Suzanne Pinckney

Where Should the 'Responsibility' in CSR End? - 0 views

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scope responsibility innovation

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 05 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Hannah spoke of how the accusations leveled at Nike in the nineties, which claimed they used child labour, were the greatest threat to the company, but at the same time the company’s biggest gift and a golden opportunity.
  • But where does this responsibility end? Should the alcohol industry be held responsible for the 2.5 millions alcohol-related deaths every year? Can the fashion industry be blamed for anorexia and unhealthy body image issues amongst young women?
Suzanne Pinckney

How Your Habits Become Productivity-Draining Distractions | Fast Company | Business + I... - 0 views

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personal focus

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    "Stare at the black cross. Don't look away. "
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Driving sustainable transformation via the power of design | Guardian Sustainable Busin... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...le-transformation-power-design

case studies data_statistics design vision business case

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  • Shaw Industries, an early adopter of cradle-to-cradle principles, is committed to making only C2C certified products by 2030. Currently more than 60% of its $4bn in total annual sales comes from certified carpet and hardwood flooring.
  • Numerous benefits accrue from values-first leadership. It clarifies and broadens, in the best way, how a company views itself. It changes how others view it. The products the company sells, its way of doing things and, indeed, its very existence, can be a living testimony to its support for a world of prosperity, social equity and environmental health.
  • most successful companies embrace good design by loudly and clearly stating their positive intentions.
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  • When a CEO declares that his or her company will improve the water quality of an entire community or build a workplace that will generate more renewable energy than it requires, this statement alone can unleash enthusiasm, creativity and innovation
  • . It stresses the good, such as 'we will use and generate only renewable energy,' rather than the more common
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New Legal Rule About to Change the Landscape of Investing - 0 views

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change investments regulation finance innovation step 7

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  • But the story in a lot of people’s minds is: “I know I’m supporting Monsanto and Raytheon, and I don’t like that, but I don’t know what else to do. The social index fund isn’t a great alternative. I think I’d like to really diversify, like going in on a local business.” When businesses that are values-based offer this kind of investor the chance to invest small amounts – $50?  $500?  $2,000? – plus a basis to believe they’ll get a return – they’ll go for it. I know I would.
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5 ways to assess how green that chemical is | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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Interface carpet innovation biomimicry step 7

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    ""Is it true that Interface puts a pesticide in their carpet tiles?"  "
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The New Metrics: Clues for making sense of sustainability ratings | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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step 6 communications metrics ratings benchmarking best practices

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  • “If it’s easy to remember, it’s easier to participate,” he said.
  • Oudghin showed examples of the remarkable transparency of some publicly traded companies, such as Nike, where anyone can check up on the details of pretty much every Nike supplier.
  • “How would we recognize a truly sustainable business if we saw one?”
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  • This “fourth benchmark” goes beyond metrics comparisons to a baseline year, to competitors, or to an internal company goal. The Gold Standard would use material, science-based key performance indicators and goals that could identify a truly sustainable business. Willard is actively working with a broad range of stakeholders from the capital markets to non-profit sustainability experts such as the Natural Step and GISR.
  • And one factor pushing the acceptance and utilization of metrics is the shortening timeframes of risk management in the wake of recent climate events. Gil Friend, founder and CEO or Natural Logic, Inc., said he trusts that each new measuring tool adds new worlds of understanding of “capital,” whether monetary, environmental or social.
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