Chichester Uni Lecture

2. Changing the way business is done.....
...Why?

4. Planet Earth - we have a problem
•CO2 a key driver
•Triggers AMPLIFYING feedback mechanisms
•Major time lag and the Tipping Point
•Critical Threshold (6th Major Extinction Event)
•Immediate strategic intervention needed
•Worldwide market pressures
•Businesses need to change and adapt QUICKLY
Source: APPCCG: Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change

5. It’s not an option

6. The Business Case
• Client requirements
• Consumers – buying power
• Drives efficiencies (saves money)
• Legal compliance
• Brand protection
• Walk the Talk
• Differentiation of service
• The new business model (In the next decade)
If a business is not sustainable it has a limited life

7. Our sector
• A unique opportunity to influence
• Our USP
• From British to International Standard
• Strategic focus (how much better can we be?)
• Public arena
• High risk
• Who is doing it NOW?
• What YOU can take into industry

8. What is Sustainable Development?
• ISO20121
• An enduring, balanced approach to economic
activity, environmental responsibility and social
progress
• Embraces Environmental Aspects, Economic
Factors and Social Issues in BALANCE.
• Strong justification for decision-making

9. What’s stopping us?
• Fear of change
• Cost
• Time
• Lack of understanding
• Too complicated
• Lack of commitment

10. The reality
• It’s not complicated
• Huge internal benefits
• Cost savings
• Improved team motivation
• Greater efficiencies
• Easier pitch and tendering process
• Increase chance of winning business
• Client benefits
• Reduced costs
• Support their policies

11. 2011 - Team challenge
Business Support
Bacs payments
3,200 payments
Postage @ 38p saving = £1,216
Cheque books = 11 books
Envelopes saving = £75
Time saved = 3 mins per cheque (writing, printing, sending) = 9,600 minutes = 4 ½ weeks
Bank charges saved = £530
Total monetary saving: = £1,821

12. 2011 - Team challenge
Print
duction in material by manually rolling back the printer
Metres
saved
2.88 ROLLS SAVED
Total cost saved
£383.90
1.85 ROLLS SAVED
Total cost saved
£138.73

13. 2011 - Team challenge
Construction
2010 we achieved 164 projects and the
average bubble wrap cost per show was
£8.92, in 2011 we achieved 307 projects and
the average bubble wrap spend was £5.70,
therefore making a saving of £3.22 per show in
2011. Making a total of £988.54
We have made these saving by purchasing set
bags for the road show flats and re using
bubble wrap where possible

14. 2011 - Team challenge
Digital media
11 x Online registration sites
Total 55,160 e-mails
Total charge out £15,320.00
Equivalent using traditional postage:
A4 Paper cost - £30,338.00
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Envelope cost - £22,064.00 £77,775.60
Post cost - £25,373.60
Saved 6.5 trees, the Clients saved £62,455.60 with
profit for drp and no costs

15. 2011 - Team challenge
Project management
The Green buttons on our laptops have
saved approximately 85kg of carbon

16. 2011 - Team challenge
Creative
Only 1 proposal this the year has been
produced as a hard copy with other physical
supporting materials
This has provided us with a 85% reduction on
printed proposals from previous years

17. 2011 - Team challenge
Video
Use of disposable batteries: zero!!!
73% of our HD tapes were reconditioned
Plus we have started to film tapeless!

18. 2011 - Team challenge
Technical services
Offices across the company used approximately 100 partially spent AA
batteries per month from Tech Services, saving around £49.00 in
purchasing new batteries per month

19. 2011 - Team challenge
Company wide
Through Confidential / Paper recycling Shredding this year
we have saved 30.5 Trees across the company

20. 2011 - Team challenge
Company wide
Year on Year we are saving approx. 58% on energy
usage

21. 2011 - Team challenge
Construction
Our recycled badge scheme has saved £1,683.14.
This has come from collecting in badges at the
close of a conference and putting them back into
stock so new ones don’t have to be bought each
time.

22. 2011 - Team challenge - not quite there
Company wide
Virtual meetings - investing in broadband infrastructure
Target - 25% reduction in face to face meetings

23. Linking community projects with corporates
Inspiring
Rewarding
Bonding
Feel good
Learning
Life changing
Motivational
Great thing to do
Improve standing

35. Tool Box Talks What?
Why?
Do
Don’t
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39. CSR - CASE STUDY
A very different kind of conference
• Putting LBG strategy into action
• Regaining customer trust
• Big society – big bank
• Putting the pride back into banking for all
of us
• A day to inspire, a day that makes a
difference…

40. Finding the right school
• School that needed support
• School that could really benefit from the event
• Willing to be involved and to introduce a new
timetable
• Needed facilities to cater for an extra 200
adults
• Infrastructure to enable the interaction and
sessions

41. Why St Mark’s?
• Recovering school
• 47 languages spoken in the school
• 5 heads in 5 years
• Bottom of the league table or London
• Some of the students come from very different
backgrounds
• Over 100 Teachers and Staff
• 750 pupils - 11 to18 years
• Recent academy status
• Considerable infrastructure investment
• Need for a confidence boost
• Need to take pupils and staff outside their comfort
zone