Publications at CSI
Sustainable Innovation and the 'Prometheus Effect'
A keynote presentation given by CSI's Director, Mark W. McElroy, at a symposium held in The Netherlands in June 2004, jointly held by The Dutch National Initiative for Sustainable Development (NIDO) and the Dutch Association of Inventors. A good introduction to the "epistemological theory of sustainability."
A prescriptive policy model for achieving sustainable innovation in organizations developed by Mark W. McElroy of CSI and Joseph M. Firestone of Executive Information Systems, Inc., a CSI board member.
The 'Open Enterprise' Idea - Brief Introduction and Overview
A brief introduction and overview of the Open Enterprise concept. This presentation explains the all-important distinction between operational business processes (business processing) and learning or innovation related processes (knowledge processing). It argues that we can have openness in the latter, even when we retain traditional levels of management control in the former. Sustainability depends on it.
Corporate Epistemology - Competing Philosophies of Truth in Business
A conceptual presentation developed by CSI and one of its partners, Executive Information Systems, Inc. (Joseph M. Firestone, Ph.D.), in which the idea of alternative epistemologies is laid out as a basis for understanding how companies make and practice their knowledge.
Sustainable Innovation and the 'Learning Drive'
A white paper that explains the concept of Macroinnovation, and how companies can achieve sustainable innovation by synchronizing learning-related policies with the natural tendencies of people to detect and solve problems in their own endemic ways, according to their own passions and interests.
Re-casting the Triple Bottom Line
This is a working proposal by the Center for Sustainable Innovation for improving the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) model for sustainability measurement and reporting. It attempts to apply the Ecological Footprint approach to all three sides of the TBL, and also proposes a means of integrating measures taken on all three fronts into a unified score which would report on the true bottom-line sustainability of a collective.
