Multiple Facets of Business Sustainability Leadership

Blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company
Sep 29, 2011 12:14 PM ET

Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Compa…

As we have discussed in previous posts, the business environment of today presents a unique opportunity to increase company returns through a more proactive and responsive business model. Our sustainability consulting practice advises clients to look to the leading edge of every business function for best practices and opportunities. So what can we learn from sustainable spend management?    The Supply Chain Management Review post, Cost Management vs. Cost Leadership, offers a unique perspective business sustainability leadership.  The article focuses on the need for an elevated level of thinking within supply chain cost control, which is consistent with the need for the same expanded awareness across all business sustainability functions today.   “Are you struggling with cost management? Or, are you striving for cost leadership? It is more than a difference in semantics. Click here to read more on the mulitple facets of business sustainability leadership.    

Home to one third of the earth's trees, the Taiga is the largest land-based biosphere and encircles the globe. Its immense oxygen production literally changes the atmosphere and refreshes the planet. It is this continuous renewal that has shaped Taiga Company's vision to drive similar change in the business world. Taiga Company seeks to be the "oxygen for your business".