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The Network for Business Sustainability's latest report, Simplifying Complexity, features the eight most significant sustainability challenges for businesses in the coming year. Fifteen Canadian business leaders identified and prioritized these challenges, representing key areas in which business is actively looking to research for insights. The challenges reflect growing awareness of the difficulties of pursuing organizational sustainability in an increasingly complex global system.
1. How can businesses act for tomorrow today?
2. How can companies design resilient sustainability programs that can survive leadership changes, economic downturns, political shifts and other setbacks?
3. How can companies most effectively engage with activist groups and NGOs on controversial issues?
4. How can companies combat consumer apathy to build active support for sustainability initiatives?
5. How can firms create a pragmatic connection between sustainability and innovation?
6. How can firms improve overall performance by embedding sustainability throughout their value chains?
7. What are the appropriate metrics for sustainable development in a natural resource, export-based and growing economy such as Canada's?
8. What are the best ways for businesses to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives on sustainability, and include Aboriginal communities in discussion of projects that affect their interests?
Access the report at http://nbs.net/knowledge/simplifying-complexity-the-8-sustainability-challenges-for-canadian-business-in-2014/ , and join the conversation on LinkedIn and Twitter.
In its role as connector and catalyst, NBS looks forward to bringing together academic and industry experts to address these challenges through insightful new knowledge. We encourage researchers worldwide to investigate these important management questions and to share them with colleagues in other disciplines. Subscribe to NBS to receive future resources.
Maya Fischhoff
Knowledge Manager | Network for Business Sustainability
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