Sustainability Discussion Question

Develop a decision framework for project portfolio management at XYZ highlighting objectives, constraints, risks involved, alternatives, and information required for analysis.

PM within organizations is gaining momentum and an indispensable component of the work flow procedure. Improving organization project management can effectively improve an organization use of resources. Nevertheless, if an an organization does not possess a clean target and does not follow project phases no one willing enters into the transformational journey. The issue is the bottom line in PM, whether it is to better the organization financially, ethically, or for standardization of procedures. Constitutions must be cognizant of the elements and competencies required to receive a successful PM outcome. In the closing, business should have an active strategy to revise and adapt to the shifting marketplace.

The Global Infrastructure Group, a subsidiary of the Global Financial Corporation, is an international conglomerate specializing in developing technologies and solutions for the Global Financial Corporation. This proposal for the Global Infrastructure Group will advise on what requirements the organization can best implement for a comprehensive project management system that can be used in a global organization that has small-, medium-, and large-scale projects. This proposal will

An ethical analysis usually has four main components, one of which reflects the issue of sustainability. During an ethical analysis, one does an evaluation of the context where actions take place. It is then determined whether the action undermines or supports the system or context, which makes the action possible and meaningful at all. This relates to the definition of sustainability, which is living on the land without ruining it, limiting how much one uses reserves so as to not deplete them faster than can be replenished, to not undermine the prerequisites of what one is doing, and using without using up.

This paper aimed to explore the concept of sustainability of nursing innovations guided by the concept analysis framework developed by Wilson (1969). Although attention in the literature of implementation science has arisen in a few decades, there is a need to identify a concrete definition to capture the essential elements in the concept of nursing innovations sustainability. This paper will present the connotative definitions and attributes, operational definition, antecedents, consequences, exemplar cases, contributes to nursing science and practice, and suggestions to further development of the concept.

Sustainability is of vital importance because anything we decide to do as a society will definitely have positively or negatively impact on the natural environment. When unsustainable action continues, they can harm the human existence by creating greenhouse gases that causes climate change, depleting natural resources that are needed for future energy and infrastructure, and polluting the air, soil, and water on which humans depends on for existence. We must change the way we procure materials, construct infrastructure and conduct our daily activates in other for these impacts to reduce (FHWA 2013). The benefits of sustainability in road maintenance as recognized by Kirkup and Allen (2015) are listed

Social issues within sustainability are something that needs to be constantly re-addressed and re-evaluated due to our ever-changing cultural perceptions. For example, the health and safety of workers has been an area that has been exploited throughout history in association with textiles. In western culture the industrial revolution saw the rapid growth of machinery, factories and production as a whole. The factory workers themselves where typically very poor and received extremely little wages as well as little or no thought having gone into the health and safety of those workers. Factories were perceived as noisy, cluttered and very dangerous. This brought forward a social need for proper training, supervision and a clean and controlled environment within a work place. This being said we now have in today’s modern western culture, laws and regulations that protect us and ensure we receive minimum wage for the time and effort we provide. This is reinforced by Barbour’s statement that they ‘recognise the importance and implications of health, safety, welfare… working in partnership with its own factories and all of its suppliers both in the UK and overseas to ensure that workplace standards, health and safety, fair pay and fair employment conditions are complied with.’ (Barbour Press, n.d.) However, if as a society we understand the need and solution for these particular social issues, why do many textile and fashion companies go further a field to non-European

Strategic marketing views sustainability through a market focused approach and considers it as a strategic resource that leads to competitive advantage for the organization and to superior performance (Hult 2011). Market-focused sustainability integrates the customer (and other important stakeholders) into marketing strategy making and implementation. This has the opportunity to create a marketing strategy that is valuable, rare, inimitable, and difficult to substitute (Barney 1991). These sustainability-driven organizations create unique idiosyncrasies that positively affect their standing in the marketplace, offer an opportunity for market segmentation, and deliver value to customers

People all around the world are beginning to recognize the importance of sustainability and how it is the key to future generations. Because the human ecological footprint is reaching the point of limitation, it is only necessary that humans learn how to adapt and develop more efficient, sustainable states. Today, many cities are faced with the issue of heavily contaminated and polluted domestic water due to the failure of proper treatment and disposal. This event occurs when pollutants and particulates come into contact and engage with water resources. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, residents and local officials continue to debate over the practices of drilling, waste management, and coal mining within their district. These practices are the lead cause to Pittsburgh 's poor water quality. As a result, residents of Pittsburgh and those who live along the border the city, are victims of dangerous wastewater which have the potential to cause deadly diseases and illnesses like malaria and cholera. The problem of water pollution in Pittsburgh has become an issue politically, because local officials debate over the treatment of toxic wastes; socially, because the people of Pittsburgh and those living near its rivers are victimized; and economically, because the city relies on its industries to avoid further debt.

As it is commonly stated, an environmentally active student from the University of Connecticut-Stamford comments, “The first step toward solving a problem is admitting there is one” (Lanslots). In the area of environmental awareness, the solution must be executed on both an individual and a corporate level. Aldo Leopold states, “A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of the land” (73). Similarly we must realize that every action we take has an intended or unintended consequence upon our earth. Each step towards the conservation effort adds a signature to the plea to save our earth. As an up and coming chemistry scholar, it is important to raise awareness of the state of

As we were learning about the three sectors of sustainability in the beginning of the semester, I realized how broad sustainability is. I began considering and reaching out to experience the different aspects of each sector, and quickly discovered how passionate I am about the service sector. I’ve always enjoyed and understood the importance of volunteer work in bettering myself and the community. In turn, for my service learning event, I choose a serving and clean up shift at the community dinner. I got there a bit early and was able to assist the cooking shift before me. I had no idea how much I would enjoy it. Meeting the volunteers and student leaders was a great way to conversate with others about aspects and initiatives on campus relating to sustainability. It was engaging to be around individuals that shared a common passion. When all the food was finished, we brought it upstairs and got ready to serve. People began coming up for helpings and it shocked me how much food we served. Everyone was very grateful, and although I only had a small part in the food preparation, I had such a strong feeling of contentment and happiness knowing so many people enjoyed their meal that was destined to be thrown away. When they announced that all the food had been reclaimed and we were feeding over 100 people, I was flabbergasted. Being aware of how much food was going to be wasted was an eye-opening moment for me. It lit a fire under me and make me want to be a bigger part of

Component 1: Provide an introduction to the organizations, carefully describing all stakeholders of these companies and their issues (e.g. the owners, the fish, the employees etc).

Orthophosphate being a chemistry-based term referring to phosphate molecules within water that are independent from other constitutes (Spellman, 2014). These act as a form of biomass fuel and nutrient for biological matter. In turn, the production of bio mass results in the deposition of organic substances within the particular water body (Ruttenberg, 2015xxx).

Backing up the history of conceptual Sustainable Development discussed during the lectures and tutorials, which as a term was first used in the book “Limits to Growth” during 1972, in which it was argued that the world will face major ecological collapse in the next 100 years if the resource consumption continued in the current trend. At latter stage, formally the “World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)”, that aimed to collectively bring countries to pursue a sustainable development. Brundtland Commission had published “Our Common Future” also known as the “Brundtland Report”, in which it states that a development should be able to meet the present needs in a much wider sense

Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Döring & Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1