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"ACCA welcomes the publication of the new SIGMA sustainability management guidelines. The guidelines provide organisations from all sectors with a comprehensive and practical approach to integrating sustainable development into core business strategies and operations. The guidelines will help provide the sustainability management systems infrastructure required to complement and support other initiatives such as AA 1000 and the Global Reporting Initiative."
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Roger Adams
Executive Director – Technical
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
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"Turning sustainable development thinking into management practice is a key challenge for business – SIGMA offers companies a practical approach to do this. Within the Principles, Guidance and the toolkit is a reservoir of knowledge that will help companies unlock Sustainable Development for themselves."
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Patrick Mallon
Director Benchmarking and Reporting
Business in the Community
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"The SIGMA guidelines are based on comprehensive research with companies attempting to implement business sustainability. They are an important resource to help companies manage the trade-offs associated with the 'triple bottom line'."
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Professor Martin Charter
Director
The Centre for Sustainable Design
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"Sigma offers a useful tool in the drive towards overall business sustainability."
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John Holbrow
Chairman, Environment and Rural Affairs
Federation of Small Businesses
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"We know only too well how hard it is to focus on key sustainability issues, integrating these into core business strategy and day-to-day management. With SIGMA, organisations can benefit from the experience of many leading companies and sustainability advocates – distilled into clear and accessible guidance."
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David Knight
Director
Sd3
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"No other initiative has come so far in delivering practical, flexible and comprehensive guidance applicable to such a wide range of organisations that want to address full-blooded sustainability. SIGMA's advantage is that it has kept a focus on the core principles, while synthesising the views of a whole host of stakeholders and the experience of over 20 piloting organisations."
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Jason Perks
Director
Sd3
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"WWF-UK's Business Education Unit welcomed the opportunity to be involved in the SIGMA project. The guidelines provide an invaluable, systematic approach to engaging meaningfully in sustainable development. We believe that SIGMA will represent a cornerstone of corporate sustainability management, equipping companies to meet the challenges of the future."
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Joss Tantram
Business Education Manager
WWF-UK
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"Putting sustainability into practice will be that much easier for any organisation adopting the SIGMA Guidelines – they provide the most comprehensive set of practitioner tools and techniques available,including highly effective ways of engaging with different stakeholders."
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Professor Stephen Martin
Visiting Professor
Centre for Complexity and Change,
The Open University and
The Institution of Environmental Sciences.
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