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Carol Thayn, president of Milton, Inc., a consumer products firm, has decided to follow an environmental improvement
strategy. The goal is to increase profits by increasing revenues and decreasing environmental costs. Carol is convinced that
revenues could be increased if she could improve the company’s environmental image. Customers have been demanding
cleaner products, and her marketing manager had indicated that producing “greener” products would definitely lead to an
increase in market share. Furthermore, Carol had recently returned from an environmental management seminar where she
had learned about ecoefficiency. She now believes that costs could be reduced while simultaneously improving
environmental performance. She has two objectives in mind: Reduce packaging and reduce production and release of
contaminating residues. Carol has decided on the following actions to achieve the desired improvements:
Hire two environmental engineers to provide the capabilities needed to improve environmental performance. One engineer
would be responsible for a new packaging design and reduction process. The other would be given responsibility to redesign
products and processes with the objective of reducing the production of residues. Carol expected the actions to reduce
All employees would be sent to several training seminars to learn about environmental management. They would then be
empowered to make improvements in environmental performance (e.g., ways to reduce contaminants and packaging
materials).
Once the processes and products were redesigned, she would participate in a third-party environmental certification
program so that customers would be assured that the environmental improvements were valid.
Required:
Explain why adding an environmental perspective to the Balanced Scorecard is considered to be legitimate.
Express the environmental improvement strategy as a series of cause-and-effect relationships expressed as if-then
statements.
Illustrate the strategy using a causal flow diagram with one important modification: add an environmental
perspective (the flow diagram should then illustrate five perspectives). Place the environmental perspective in
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Eco efficiency merupakan konsep yang berkaitan dengan mempertahankan produksi barang dan jasa yang lebih bermanfaat
sekaligus mengurangi dampak lingkungan yang ditimbulkan akibat kegiatan tersebut. (Hansen dan Mowen 2007)
mengungkapkan bahwa konsep eco efficiency merupakan upaya yang dilakukan perusahaan untuk mengarahkan
operasinya untuk menjadi lebih ramah lingkungan. Selain itu konsep ini juga menjelaskan bahwa upaya perusahaan untuk
memproduksi barang dan jasa yang memiliki nilai tambah sekaligus berkelanjutan dalam mengurangi dampak negatif
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