The following is a guest post by Edward Quevedo, Esq of Paladin Law. and Leilani C. Latimer or Sabre Holdings. It concerns work done by 3p’s new sponsor, Dominican University’s Green MBA program. You can look forward to a new series of posts by Dominican in the coming weeks.
Can Green Teams help companies innovate beyond internal operations and actually influence product and service innovation? If so, what will it take to realign and redesign these teams so that their energy and social capital can be optimized? This was the focus of a recent research study published by Sabre Holdings, Dominican University and Paladin Law Group.
Going into this project it had already been widely established that “Green Teams”, or employee- led teams focused on environmental and sustainability initiatives, were infusing the workplace with much needed education and catalyzing awareness about the issues. What was less apparent, however, was the extent to which Green Teams had been able to harness their energy in such a way as to drive product and service innovation, or add what we call “Enterprise Value.”
Our research study produced several compelling insights. The study – a result of interviews with 14 companies across industries that are recognized leaders in employing differentiating sustainability initiatives and Green Teams – found that Green Teams are barely scratching the surface when it comes to generating sustainable value externally. Given the significant management and employee time and energy that goes into these teams, the generation of Enterprise Value would seem to be a given, but typically this is not the case.
Read the complete article at Triple Pundit.