5.18 Share decision-making power with affected parties
Business Strategy And Product Management
Ensure that all affected parties have the opportunity to get involved in helping the organisation become more sustainable.
Criteria
- Decision-making: Human-testable
Align the project team’s goals with key business objectives, and affected parties (for example, project managers) have the power and autonomy to make key decisions on the organization’s behalf.- Give the planet a seat at the table
- Giving nature a seat on the board is a powerful way to make sure businesses protect our environment
- GR491 – 1-3007 – Management Alignment
- Include the Planet in your Brief
- Inclusive Decision-Making
- Social sustainability
- Society Centered Design
- Software proposal template
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 5 – Gender Equality
- United Nations SDGS – Goal 16 – Sustainable Society
Benefits
- Environment
Emissions can be reduced through group action and commitments at an organizational level. - Operations
Incentivizing project teams with key sustainability goals and granting the authority to make decisions based on these criteria enables them to measurably improve a range of metrics within the business, design, development, and infrastructure categories.
GRI
- Materials: Low
- Energy: Low
- Water: Low
- Emissions: Low