A Sustainable Business Case for Green Buildings

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashwatha Mahesh
Keyword(s):  
Business Case ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Sustainable Business

Business Case for Green Buildings in India

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Verma ◽  
Anil Kashyap
Keyword(s):  
Business Case ◽  
Green Buildings

scholarly journals Eco-Efficient Value Creation of Residential Street Lighting Systems by Simultaneously Analysing the Value, the Costs and the Eco-Costs during the Design and Engineering Phase

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3351
Author(s):  
Nine Klaassen ◽  
Arno Scheepens ◽  
Bas Flipsen ◽  
Joost Vogtlander
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Street Lighting ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
Lighting Systems ◽  
The City

In search of sustainable business models, product innovation must fulfil a double objective: the new product must have a higher (market) value, and at the same time a lower eco-burden. To achieve this objective, it is an imperative that the value, the total costs of ownership, and the eco-burden of a product are analysed at the beginning of the design process (idea generation and concept development). The design approach that supports such a design objective, is called Eco-efficient Value Creation (EVC). This approach is characterised by a two-dimensional representation: the eco-burden at the y-axis and the costs or the value at the x-axis. The value is either the Willingness to Pay or the market price. The eco-burden is expressed in eco-costs, a monetised single indicator in LCA (Life Cycle Assessment): an app for IOS and Android, and excel look-up tables at the internet, enable quick assessment of eco-costs. A practical example is given: the design of a new concept of domestic street lighting system for the city of Rotterdam. This new concept results in a considerable reduction of carbon footprint and eco-costs, and shows the benefits for the municipality and for the residents, resulting in a viable business case.

An Overview of Green Retrofitting Implementation in Non Residential Existing Buildings

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehmaashini Jagarajan ◽  
Mat Naim Abdullah @ Mohd Asmoni ◽  
Janice YM Lee ◽  
Mohd Nadzri Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternate Solution

Sustainability has been the latest value added service in the facility management field. However, the practice of sustainability in the facility management field is not well recognized and understood by the facility management team. As a result, building sector account to be the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions around the world. In fact, there is a strong business case for green building, yet green buildings represent the next phase of buildings. Since, the majority of the existing stock of buildings is not sustainably built and as it is not practically viable to demolish all the existing buildings, hence, one alternate solution is green retrofitting. However, the responses for green retrofitting are at very low rate. This paper reports the need to green retrofitting, reasons behind the limited number of green retrofitting implementation, and finally, a critical review of the existing body of knowledge on green retrofitting has been conducted. It is found that there has been no research conducted till to date on identifying the success factors for successful green retrofitting implementation.  

scholarly journals Internal Open Innovation—Lessons Learned from Internal Crowdsourcing at SAP

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 4245
Author(s):  
Jakob Pohlisch
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Case Study ◽  
Sustainable Business Models

Crowdsourcing provides companies with access to widespread knowledge pools and constitutes a well-established inbound open innovation practice. More recently, some companies have introduced the approach of open innovation within their company boundaries. Using internal crowdsourcing (IC), companies can apply open innovation principles to overcome information silos. Multinational corporations often have thousands of employees around the globe, embedded in divisions and virtually separated from each other. Although a large proportion of companies nowadays use social IT to mitigate problems of distance, only a few companies can access their employees’ wisdom effectively—let alone efficiently. With almost 100,000 employees worldwide, SAP possesses significant resources, which IC can help to unlock and develop. In this business case study, we report the findings of our investigation of five IC implementations at SAP. Based on interviews and secondary data, we analyze the process and related governance tasks of the different IC approaches. The applications for IC range from the search for new and sustainable business models to an approach that uses crowdsourcing for the competence development of SAP’s employees. Our paper contributes to our understanding of open innovation and crowdsourcing by conceptualizing IC as a form of internal open innovation. Further, from our observations, we derive six lessons learned to support managers in implementing and executing IC initiatives successfully. Our findings will subsequently help managers to increase the innovation capabilities of their companies, create more sustainable business models, further the entrepreneurial mindset of their employees and thus provide a competitive advantage.

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