"CSRware provided us with a cost-effective, On-Demand Sustainable Supply Chain software solution with exceptional customer service to simplify the deployment of our Environmental Performance Survey to assess our global suppliers."
- Curtis Ravenel, Global Head, Sustainability Group at Bloomberg
"We evaluated a number of solutions and CSRware proved to have the best functionality and deepest understanding of corporate sustainability."
- Brad Minnis, Director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Security at Juniper Networks
"Avaya chose to work with CSRware on this important initiative because of the depth of their software platform that focuses on supply chain performance."
- Wilson Korol, Sustainability Business Leader at Avaya
"We chose CSRware� for the functionality of its platform and for the company's deep understanding of corporate sustainability."
- Katherine Michonski, Program Manager at the Business Council on Climate Change
The business world is awakening to an inevitable reality: our global economy, society and environment are inextricably linked. In increasing numbers, savvy companies are beginning to adopt and adapt to the new measure of organizational success: Sustainability.
"The idea is to balance the needs of people, the planet and the company's profits to create long-term share-holder value."
- Mark Greenlaw, Cognizant
Companies understand the major impact managing energy, water and carbon emissions has on their bottom line results. Using natural resources efficiently reduces costs associated with energy and water consumption, waste generation and carbon regulatory compliance. It also helps minimize the risk of fines and penalties, operational disruptions and negative impacts to their corporate image. By avoiding these unnecessary liabilities, companies are also increasing operational efficiency by directing their efforts towards strategic planning and revenue-driving initiatives.
CSRware wants to be your sustainability solution. We currently power the sustainability efforts of leading global corporations to maximize the effectiveness of their environmental and supply chain initiatives, as well as streamline reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Global Reporting Initiative and other interested parties.
Let us help you balance your triple bottom line for the greater good and a thriving business, community and eco-system.
Sustainability - The most widely accepted definition comes from "Our Common Future," Report of the United Nations' World Commission on Environment and Development, commonly called the The Brundtland Report.
"Sustainability is the aspiration to ensure that meeting the needs of the present does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
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Corporate Social Responsibility is the term that has been adopted by companies around the world to begin addressing serious realities related to the future well being of our planet and our society.
In the current business environment, CSR has become not only the 'right thing to do', but it has also become the 'competitive' thing to do. The deliberate inclusion of CSR principles in the corporate decision-making processes ensures that companies are mindful of public interests�particularly in respect to the triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit. Increasingly, stakeholders in the world's largest corporations are demanding that their companies become more socially responsible and expect them to understand and address the social and community issues that are relevant to them. These issues encompass not only our limited natural resources and global climate change but also ethical and other neglected factors in the public sphere.
In practical terms, the triple bottom line means expanding the traditional results-oriented reporting framework to take into account ecological and social performance in addition to financial performance.
The concept of TBL demands that a company's responsibility lies with stakeholders as well as shareholders. In this case, "stakeholders" refers to anyone who is influenced, either directly or indirectly, by the actions of the firm. According to the stakeholder theory, the business entity should be used as a vehicle for coordinating stakeholder interests, instead of only maximizing shareholder (owner) profit. -wikipedia.org.
According to the Economist,
"Only a company that produces a TBL is taking account of the full cost involved in doing business."
The Bottom Lines: People, Planet, Profit -or- Social, Environmental, Economic
From the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/14301663