Better Green Business: Handbook for Environmentally Responsible and Profitable Business Practices

4. Make Green Strategy Actionable with a Proven Approach

4.1. Use Leading Practices for Making Strategic Visions Actionable

Businesses can effectively apply well-established methodologies for making business-driven operational improvements to areas of environmental stewardship. Such methodologies for implementing strategy or reaching strategic objectives in an organization often provide a clear way to trace the initiatives and programs back to the original vision and high-level objectives. Companies simply need to trace the initiatives in which investments are made back to the driving strategic imperatives. This traceability is important to maintain because it offers several significant benefits at relatively little cost.

First, creating initiatives ...