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Innovation for Sustainable Organizations (ISO) partners with businesses to develop high performance strategies and practices that enable your firm to achieve its potential in the natural and social capital arenas, leading to sustainable economic success. They provide innovative and value-added solutions to address strategic and operational issues. There is great competitive opportunity in this triple bottom line approach for those who rise to the challenge.
We want to be with like-minded people sharing best practices and accomplishing the change we seek through national and global collaboration on system change. We are hoping through this certification, we can make this change happen at a speed that will make future generations proud of us finally coming to grips with our ommissions.
They are passionate and knowledgeable about the triple bottom line approach to business. Their consultants have proven credentials, professionalism and experience and they utilize a proven methodology to guide you on the journey. They use metrics to assess your current status and offer guidance and facilitation every step of the way. They guarantee a high-quality project delivered on time and within your budget. In collaboration with government and NGOs, business will be a leader in the solution to global business, social and environmental issues. As business change agents, ISO guides organizations on the strategic and operational journey toward triple bottom line sustainability.
The Change We Seek®
We want to create a groundswell of confidence in American business that it has something important to say, but only as it understands its role in the holistic system in which we all exist.
Businesses too often thinks too narrowly about the aspects and impacts of the multiple decisions they make every day. Through our work and by creating an equal collaboration of business, government and NGOs, we blend our business and volunteerism into a grassroots groundswell of change. It is a powerful experience to see how companies with which we work are getting to a whole new sustainable place. We are watching companies create meaningful places that engage stakeholders at a level most have never imagined.
ISO International
- Industry: Management & Financial Consulting
- Product/Services: Triple Bottom Line Consulting
- Location: De Pere, WI
- http://www.iso2050.com
Summary:
Certified: July 2009| Points Earned | % Points Available | |
|---|---|---|
| Accountability » | 10.4 | 78% |
| Employees » | 31.8 | 95% |
| Consumers » | 38.7 | 58% |
| Community » | 42.6 | 58% |
| Environment » | 12.2 | 91% |
| Composite B Score | 135.7 |
- >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
- >60% points available = Area of excellence
Highlights:
From B Impact AssessmentEnvironment: >75% recycled office supplies; >25% of carbon inventory offset through purchase of certified carbon credits; >5% renewable energy; Use of renewables increased annually
Employees: >6% of profits included in employee profit sharing plan; >80% of individual/family health insurance premiums covered; Employees always included in strategic management decisions; +6 weeks paid maternity leave; 4+ weeks vacation
Community: >60% of purchases from local independent businesses; >15% of suppliers located in low-income communities; >10% of net profits given to charitable organizations; Employees allowed time off for community service