The Benefits
Increasing profitability through responsible practice
If your business doesn't have a robust approach to sustainability you may be missing valuable opportunities. But we can help you change this.
As well as being good ethical practice, a sustainable approach to business enables you to understand specific commercial opportunities and wider business benefits that you are missing by the way you currently operate.
And we speak from personal experience. As a result of sound sustainability practices, Interface has generated USD $336 million in avoided costs and top line growth, and we can show you how you could learn from this experience to enable your business to create its own successes.
Understanding the wider context
Although compliance with legislation is becoming a growing issue for many businesses this is not the most important underlying driver for change. Businesses are facing relational, customer, environmental and reputation issues that extend far beyond the immediate legislative considerations. Critical aspects of the wider context matter and they will influence or determine whether and how you can be successful as a business in the future.
Understanding and responding early to the wider market signals and trends means you can help create a future that your business can contribute to and benefit from.
Engaging with the real change issues
We can help you to develop your organisation; the way it works and the way it relates with the changing internal and external challenges. This includes showing you how you can extend the sustainability understanding and education of every member of your staff. We can also share with you what we have learnt about designing and implementing initiatives that change how people perceive and value sustainable practices.
Engaging with the real internal and external perceptions and cultural issues will help your organisation begin to overcome the perceived constraints and be open to the many possibilities.
Our shared vision
It's unsurprising that Ashridge and InterfaceRAISE share a common philosophy to sustainable business:
"Really engaging with sustainability as a strategic issue involves radical organisational and personal change. That's where we can challenge, support and enable new thinking - especially around those areas where it is commonly assumed that changes simply can't be made."
Anthony Kasozi,
Ashridge Consulting
"Wise organisations recognise that paying lipservice to sustainability will not satisfy the demands of customers, suppliers and employees: businesses that want to respond must put responsible practices at the heart of their corporate agenda. We can help them to do this, in their individual way, specific to their organisational context."
Karin Laljani, Senior Vice President
InterfaceFLOR Europe
Drawing on our expertise
Changing the way you work can not only save your business money but also make you money. We believe that businesses can become radically more sustainable and we have the experience and know-how to encourage better business.
This approach has already proved very successful in America where InterfaceRAISE has helped the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, fundamentally change the way they work Find out how Wal-Mart has embraced sustainability.