Category: Purpose Driven Business
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The Grant-Ready SME Sustainability Pack
The 7 things you need before you apply for anything Most SME owners don’t struggle with motivation—they struggle with time, clarity, and confidence. You know you should reduce energy and waste costs, you may have customers asking questions, and you’ve probably heard there are grants “out there”… but the whole process can feel vague and…
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How to Bring a Sustainability Mindset Into Your Projects (A Practical Guide for SMEs)
In today’s fast-changing business environment, strong project management isn’t just helpful – it’s essential. Irish SMEs face increasing pressure to adapt, innovate and respond quickly to sustainability expectations from customers, lenders and regulators. Projects that integrate sustainability from the start are more resilient, cost-effective and future-ready. A sustainable mindset simply means managing projects in a…
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Why Organisations Adopt Sustainable Practices
There are many reasons organisations adopt sustainable practices. Shareholder focus for example in “sin industries” (un.org) such as mining, tobacco, gambling and armaments (forbes.com) mean they need to fundamentally change their business model for substantial sustainable development. If we consider the drivers for sustainability as indicated in figure 1.0 (GPM Reference Guide for Sustainable Project Management) we see that Risk…