Sustainability Management System - scorecard-based construction of an operative sustainability management
Short Description
Status
completed
Summary
Motivation
Companies include sustainable development increasingly in their visions and strategies. However the effective implementation is still lacking since the classical management concepts originate from the areas of environmental, security, risk or quality assurance. They are not integrative and too operative (often with an end of pipeline approach) in nature and therefore can not be integrated in the general strategic management-, monitoring-, and controlling systems.
Therefore the project SMS is not located on the level of these areas, but on the top management level of a company which steers the company's policy and orientation both normatively and strategically.
SMS closes the gap between the strategic orientation and operative implantation, which is often bemoaned. It supports and enables the proactive implantation of vision and strategy on the operative level. Since companies can not orient all areas at the same time towards sustainable development, SMS is designed such, that it can be implemented any time, regardless in which stage of the sustainable development process it is.
Content and Goals
- Further development of the central and established management concepts such as sustainable report, sustainable program and indicator system to a consistent "Sustainability Management System".
- Implementation of the SMS - model in four partner companies from four different sectors.
- Adaption and testing of a webbased software for sustainability management and -report and its further development for the Austrian market - SoFi Austria.
Methods Used
During the project the following methods are being used:
- Scientific analyses
- Evaluation methods (ex-post, self evaluation)
- Vision and backcasting methods
- Controlled dialog (stakeholder management)
- Interactive methods (techniques to foster creativity, moderation)
- Coaching and Qualification
- Interdisciplinarity
- Transdisciplinarity
- Supervision
Results
- Introduction chapter of the manual "Sustanability Managing Systems"
- Evaluation of the companies' "sustainable-development-activities"
- Development of a Sustainability Management System
- Implementation of Sustainability Management Systems in four Austrian companies
- Further development of the Software SoFi to SoFi Austria
Project management
DI Dr. Alfred Strigl
Österreichisches Institut für nachhaltige Entwicklung (ÖIN)
Project Partners
Project management
DI Dr. Alfred Strigl
Österreichisches Institut für nachhaltige Entwicklung (ÖIN)
Project or cooperation partner
- PE Europe GmbH
DI Sandra Mayerhöffer - Softlab GmbH
Gerhard Brandstätter - Huckster-Consult
Georg Greutter MBA - ASD
Mag. Martina Schmalnauer - Univ.-Doz. Dr. Dietmar Kanatschnig
Contact Address
Lindengasse 2/12
1070 Wien
Tel.: +43 1 524 6847 - 14
E-Mail: alfred.strigl@oin.at
Internet: www.oin.at