Essentially, your approach to GRC needs to shift from one of bits and pieces —
what amounts to a fragmented approach — to one that delivers key function-
ality across all dimensions of your business processes — a holistic approach.
Without a holistic GRC program, you will be hard pressed to achieve the sort
of flexibility and transparency that is required of your business if it is to meet
current environmental regulations. With it, not only will you be compliant,
but also you will be productive, profitable, and progressing in your program
of going green.
Discovering Ways in which All Companies Can Go Green ......................
Everyone affects the environment. When you go green as a company, here are
a few areas where you can make changes that both help the environment and
often save money to boot
Establish an energy management program
Build, renovate, and clean with sustainable resources and materials
Recycle
Reduce travel
The thing about processes is that they are what we do and have been
enshrined as “the way we’ve always done things.” And as you know, if you
keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll get what you’ve always got. In other
words, greening your processes means change, including a cultural shift that
affects every employee in the company.
When your company goes green, the entire corporate culture must undergo
what is known as a paradigm shift:a major alteration in the way it sees,
thinks, feels, and acts about where its resources come from, how much of
them there are, what their consumption can and cannot achieve, and, impor-
tantly, how much it costs to use them.
Reducing Your Energy Use and Costs........................................................
The prime mover behind changing your corporation’s general lack of aware-
ness of its energy resources into an attitude of understanding and respect lies
in your ability to show people the consequences of their actions, along with
the work processes that motivate those actions. People must be able to visu-
alize in concrete terms the ways and means by which their actions correspond
to the energy resources that they consume.
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