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Introduction
How to use
Foreword
Executive summary
SIGMA Principles
Management Framework
Introducing the tables
Four key phases
Leadership & vision
Business case
Vision & principles
Communication
Culture change
Planning
Delivery
Monitor, review & report
Views on the Guidelines

  Leadership and Vision  
diagram of Leadership and Vision phase Define the vision for sustainability and ensure leadership support for it.
 Phase  Activity
LV1 Business case and
top-level commitment
  • Developing a business case to address sustainability issues.
  • Securing sufficient top-level management understanding and commitment to integrate sustainability and stakeholder engagement into core processes and decision-making.
  • Identifying stakeholders and opening dialogue with them on key impacts and suggested approaches.
    LV2 Vision, mission and
    operating principles
  • Formulating the organisation’s long-term sustainability mission, vision and operating principles and a high-level strategy that supports them and revisit them periodically.
    LV3 Training and
    communication
  • Establishing the organisation’s training and developmentrequirements; launching training programmes as appropriate.
  • Raising awareness on sustainability issues and how they may affect the organisation’s licence to operate and its future direction.
    LV4 Culture change
  • Ensuring that the organisational culture is supportive of a move towards sustainability.
     

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