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It’s therefore critical to have a credible and independent way to measure and compare performance, even past the break-point. Reality shows that benchmarking with the past, peers, or short-term goals is insufficient to accelerate required progress. The average firm is implementing few talent recruitment, cultivation, training or performance evaluation best practices, many of which only form a baseline standard. The methodology is grounded in a robust principles-based definition of a Future-Fit Society: one where waste does not exist, people have the opportunity and capacity to lead fulfilling lives, energy is renewable and available to all, and so on. If you’ve worked with our framework, you’ll now benefit from having a way to cross-reference your own sustainability goals with the universal goals in the benchmark and a way to measure progress that is comparable with others.Thousands of organisations around the world are already applying the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development and its sustainability principles to define their own unique and positive place in a sustainable world and navigate towards it. The concept of backcasting – planning from a future position of success – is at the core of our work. However, due to the high volume of correspondence that we receive, it may occasionally take a little longer. Subject Benchmark Statements describe the nature of study and the academic standards expected of graduates in specific subject areas. Farm animal welfare is a systemic risk that many companies in the food industry are either not effectively managing or not properly reporting.

The service integrates the Future-Fit Business goals into our well-developed coaching services to help build capabilities inside an organization to future-proof business strategy and manage the transition toward required practice.

It has the potential to revolutionize the way we understand and report corporate progress toward a sustainable society by shifting our focus from today’s best practice to required practice to be future-fit. Aware that they cannot do everything at once, leaders say they’re willing to plan for the long term.

The sustainability principles and framework promoted by The Natural Step are grounded in systems thinking, consensus on upstream causes and the science of what we need to do to create a sustainable society.This may be due to technology itself: training is more accessible, vendor support has improved and usability increases as innovations age. The TNS Framework and the Future-Fit Goals are cross-referenced with many different indicators and frameworks.

I’m extremely happy to be part of the Release Council and support the development of the benchmark on behalf of The Natural Step teams around the world. The Business Vantage Student's Book contains authentic listening and reading materials, including interviews with business people, providing models for up to date business language. A Student Book and set of Class Audio CDs is available for each exam, while the Teacher's Book and Personal Study Book cover both the BULATS and Cambridge English: Business exams. The Future-Ready Business Benchmark, developed by Economist Impact and supported by Cognizant, visualised on the right, gauges how prepared multinational businesses are for the future in ten countries and eight industries.

However, businesses are behind on implementing the talent recruitment and development practices needed to build competitive advantage over the long run. More and more voices are speaking up now about the need to move away from incremental improvement to be ‘less bad’ and that there is a problem with talking about best practice in isolation from the global crisis and existential threat of un-sustainability. The 2021 report shows that of the 150 global food companies evaluated 79% have published formal objectives and targets for farm animal welfare compared to just 26% of companies in 2012.