Is your business sustainable?

Recently that has been a lot of talk about the future of business lies in sustainability.  What is sustainabllity? At first it seems like it’s a big, fuzzy word like “paradigm”.

Here is what sustainability means:

“For the business enterprise, sustainable development means adopting business strategies and activities that meet the needs of the enterprise and its stakeholders today while protecting, sustaining and enhancing the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future.”

International Institute for Sustainable Development

The business case for sustainability:

1. Brand differentiation and reputation management
2. Risk management and maintaining customers
3. New marke opportunities
4. Employee recruitment, rentention, and productivity
5. Access to capital
6. Increased efficiency
7. Improved relations with Regulators

Of course, some of the challenges for sustainability, particularly for Small and Medium sized companies are:

1. Implementation costs and resources
2. sourcing supplies
3. educating consumers
4. Internal Communication and Training
5. Reporting and Credentialing

For Konmin Software, the sustainability issue is really as simple as follows,

Konmin Software is committed to sustainability. We minimize our overhead by maintaining a 100% virtual office, and allow our developers to telecommute to work. We encourage our staff to use public transit when visiting our clients. We are also committed to a paper-less workplace.

Is your business practicing sustainability?

If not, have a chat with me!

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