The Sustainability Imperative

Abstract

Sustainability is described as a quality or condition of a state or process that seeks to strike a balance between the needs and resource utilization of populations. It is no longer a nice-to-have feature. Sustainability is an imperative in all facets of modern life. Sustainability require goal setting for anyone or any organization that uses or plans to use scarce resources in the conduct of day-to-day life. Sustainability not only involves "resources" planned and utilized in projects and processes in everyday life. Energy and/or effort are expended when individuals or organizations design, define, or modify processes through process improvement initiatives. Win–win solutions support the goals and objectives and the internal workings of the organizations involved in the projects. Effort and commitment is maximized in such organizations. When Structure meets some management objectives for the way processes or projects are managed, the possibility of unintended consequences may become a reality.

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