The Future of Value: How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation - Hardcover

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Eric Lowitt is a strategy and sustainability consultant and speaker with fifteen years of management consulting and strategy experience in companies such as Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, and Fidelity Investments. He is author of numerous articles about sustainability, strategy, and value creation and has been published in mainstream and practition-er journals, including Forbes, Reuters, and Business Strategy Review. He writes a regular column for both GreenBiz and Sustainable Life Media and blogs at his website, www.EricLowitt.com.

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Praise for the future of value

"Creating value in a crowded marketplace is always difficult; doing it in a sustainable fashion is downright painful.?The Future of Value?provides insightful analysis of how successful businesses have been able to make sustainability part of their corporate ethos and more importantly how they have translated this ethos into profits and value for all stakeholders. A worthwhile read." ?Anup Jacob, founding partner, Virgin Green Fund

"The Future of Value is an invaluable resource to help companies pivot forward by embracing sustainable practices that will create distinct competitive advantage and long-term stakeholder value." ?John Replogle, CEO, Seventh Generation

"Think sustainability is about altruism and good citizenship? Think again. Eric Lowitt demonstrates that it's about business value and long-term corporate survival. Helping people and the planet is a great fringe benefit." ?Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management, Babson College

"I have always been a believer in 'whatever it takes' to get the business sector and consumers on the road to sustainability. The Future of Value provides strategic frameworks and concrete actions that tie sustainability to competitive differentiation and value creation. And if there is anything that corporate executives listen to, it's how to win in the marketplace! Kudos Eric!"?Bonnie Nixon, executive director, Sustainability Consortium

"An excellent look at the role sustainability can and does play in creating successful business strategy today. Filled with compelling examples and rich insights from real strategists, this book is sure to inform even the most active reader of sustainability best practices. It provides a clear how-to guide that can enable any company to make sustainability a key part of a winning strategy. This book is sure to prove valuable." ? Paul Nunes, executive director of research, Accenture Institute for High Performance, and coauthor, Jumping the S-Curve

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If organizations are to stay two steps ahead of their competition, they must embrace sustainability as a new and dynamic means of creating value today and becoming more agile than their competitors tomorrow.

The Future of Value reveals what it takes for companies to thrive and outperform the competition in today's growth-constrained, sustainability-conscious world. Written by Eric Lowitt (a renowned business strategy and sustainability expert) this groundbreaking book shows how sustainability can be used as a powerful, pragmatic lens to enhance business performance. Lowitt also explains what it means for a company to be a Sustainable Market Leader and explores best practices for crafting and overseeing a portfolio of effective tools, developing competitive strategies, and adjusting value chain activities, talent management practices, and corporate policies to help organizations execute powerful sustainability strategies.

Based on solid research, the book is designed to be practical and is filled with proven ideas that can be used to strengthen a company's strategy and performance through the integration of sustainability-oriented tasks and actions. The author also includes much-needed information for engaging stakeholders in day-to-day sustainability management as a means to shape and fuel efforts to continuously renew their sustainability strategies

Lowitt outlines a systematic, yet instantly familiar, model any company can adopt to connect sustainability with their growth and competitive strategies. In this way, the author shows leaders how to shape, color, and own The Future of Value.