 save money, and benefit from increased productivity, engagement, and innovation.
Ultimately, being a sustainable business won’t just result in benefits that take years upon years to reap; there are plenty of short-term advantages that directly result in profitability.
How you can be a sustainable business
In this post, we have considered what business sustainability is, and how a sustainable business is made up of three different principles.
We have also seen why business sustainability is needed, and considered the negative impacts of being unsustainable, in addition to the positives that being a sustainable business brings.
Now we’ll look at how you can do your bit to help create a more sustainable business, and how Process Street can help you achieve your sustainability goals.
How to use Process Street to help you become a more sustainable business
As a piece of business process management (BPM) software, Process Street has targeted common business procedures and looked at how they can be made more sustainable.
We provide advice, information and template resources to facilitate you in reaching your sustainability goals.
For example, use Process Street’s environmental accounting template to make your accounting processes more sustainable. Save money by doing so and support a healthy active workforce by implementing schemes such as the cycle to work scheme.
Below are some of Process Street’s resources to help you get started and become more sustainable in your business operations.
- 12 Inspection Checklists to Maximize Safety in the Work Place
- Office Safety Inspection Checklist
- Hotel Safety Inspection Checklist
- What is IS0 31000? Getting Started With Risk Management
- ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Audit
- Warehouse Safety Checklist
- 5 Free ISO 14001 Checklist Templates for Environmental Management
- Environmental Accounting Internal Audit
- Hotel Sustainability Audit
- What is Workplace Diversity? Improving Diversity in the Workplace (8 Free Templates)
- How to Build Better Employee Accountability with Processes
- How to Get, Process and Act on Employee Feedback
- Why You Should Unleash Team Collaboration and How to Do it
Our templates have the following features to provide you with an excellent BPM tool:
- Dynamic task due dates so no task is ever left incomplete.
- Stop tasks that ensure task order.
- Integrations with other pieces of software so you can synchronize your processes.
- Conditional logic to create a dynamic process that caters to your specific needs.
- Task assignment so that you can assign the relevant team members to specific tasks.
Business sustainability is becoming increasingly important
- Unsustainable actions and long-term business success are mutually exclusive.
- Sustainable actions can provide short-term benefits as well as a myriad of long-term benefits.
- Our economy is enveloped within our society; a society that is encased within our environment in a nested-dependencies model.
- It is our environment that deals the ultimate trump card. Environmental changes will ripple down to society and finally our economy.
Focusing on the final bullet point, it is becoming more and more important for companies to adopt sustainable actions. With looming climatic changes, mass overexploitation of resources, habitat destruction, and extinction, we are pushing environmental conditions to their limits.
But by taking a precautionary principle and adopting sustainable actions, you can help both your business and the environment to thrive.
We’d love to hear about the different ways you are sustainable in your business operations in the comments, and any questions you have regarding business sustainability. Who knows, you may even get featured in an upcoming article!