The Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook [electronic resource] Frameworks to Achieve Environmental Sustainability and Competitive Advantage / by Jimmy Y. Jia.
In an era in which scientists say we are approaching a point of no return in terms of climate change, companies are looking for ways to improve productivity of innovations that reduce environmental footprints. Among the questions they are looking to answer are: How can financial tools be leveraged f...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Contents:
- 1. Prologue: Why Create a Toolkit of Frameworks?
- 2. Introduction to Part I: What Is Energy-as-Strategy?
- 3. Strategy Literacy: Seeking Competitive Advantage
- 4. Energy Literacy: The Energy Balance for Business Decisions
- 5. Financial Statements: The Universal Language of Business
- 6. Energy Statements: Mediating Decision Cycles
- 7. Carbon Strategies: De-risking Exposures
- 8. Introduction to Part II: What Is a System?
- 9. Systems Literacy: How to Think in Systems
- 10. Metrics Systems: Managing Resource Flows
- 11. How to Create Your Own Framework
- 12. Introduction to Part III: What Is a Leader?
- 13. Organizational and Decision-Making Tools
- 14. Communication: Using Structures to Send Information
- 15. Communication: Perceiving Structure When Receiving Information
- 16. Introduction to Part IV: What Is Innovation?
- 17. How to Ask Questions
- 18. Micro-Innovations: Incremental Process Improvements
- 19. Meso-Innovations: Creating Serendipity for Emergent Ideas
- 20. Macro-Innovations: The Discipline of Scaling Adoption
- 21. Introduction to Part V: What Is Governance?
- 22. Influence of Energy on Internal Reporting
- 23. External ESG Reporting Frameworks
- 24. Epilogue: Advice to an Energy Strategist.