Building A Sustainable Organization Individual Case Study Analysis

This report analyzes the concept and importance of sustainable innovation with Bio bean company in an individual case study analysis. It covers the advantages and disadvantages of sustainable innovation, the current sustainability lifestyle, and the use of Gibbs' Reflective Model to assess sustainability ideals. The report also includes an overview of Bio bean company, its objectives, and its impact on the environment.

Building A Sustainable
Organisation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
Overview of bio bean company:......................................................................................................3
Concept of Sustainable innovation:.................................................................................................3
Advantages of sustainable innovation:............................................................................................4
Disadvantages of Sustainable innovation:.......................................................................................4
Importance of sustainable innovation: Biobean Company..............................................................5
Current sustainability lifestyle :.......................................................................................................6
GIBBS' REFLECTIVE MODEL:....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSIONS:.................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES:..................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability refer to fulfill the needs from natural resources such as air, water, light etc.
without compromising on the future generation. It is ability to fulfill their present requirements of
generations from the natural resources. It can be used to guiding a decisions at the global, national
and the individual consumer level (Cannas and et. al., 2020). This report is about the bio bean
company plc, In Cambridgeshire, one of the world best waste coffee recycle factory. It established
in the year 2013 by Arthur Kay in London, England. This respective report will cover a concept and
importance of sustainable innovation with the idea to continue the improvement in consideration to
the company. Furthermore, this assessment will cover the various steps of gibbs reflective cycle of
sustainability ideals and produce a require documents to support the organization.
MAIN BODY
Overview of bio bean company:
Bio bean was founded in the year 2013 in London, Uk by arthur kay. It is the global one of
the best coffee recycling factory in Cambridgeshire, England. Biobean is winning the award of eco
friendly company that has industrialise the process of coffee waste recycle piece of land into
advanced eco friendly fuels and biochemicals. It is private organisation. Biobean works with the old
supply unit to collect and multiple of coffee waste in piece of land to produced by coffee factories,
coffee shops, transport hubs and offices. In the year 2016, biobean established a retail product, of
coffee logs and coffee pellets to the consumer (De Luca and et. al., 2018). According to reports, In
2017, bio bean established the advertisement campaign after win a virgin voom competition. In
2019, flavour of natural element add into the food industry and beverage industry. The main
objective of the company is to get cities powered by coffee, by replace conventional fuels and
chemicals with sustainable, cost effective alternative biofuels.
Concept of Sustainable innovation:
Sustainable innovation means companies want to developing new products with the help of
new idea, new method and new concept from the use of existing products and ensure that they
receive a return on investment. They put the resources like time, people and money to innovate a
product. It helps to sustain, or maintain, ongoing innovation in an effort to stay competitive in their
markets. According to Richard Adams, researcher said that the sustainable innovation involves the
intended to making a changes to products, services, or processes of company to generating a long
term benefits while creating economic profits for the firm.

Advantages of sustainable innovation:
 Increased revenue for business: To develop the business to attact the more customers in
terms of increase the revenue. To run an eco friendly, some government company and non
profit institutions also prefer give contracts to companies.(Geissdoerfer, Vladimirova and
Evans, 2018)
 Good public relations: It is the brand image of the company to improve the new and
potential customers. To giving a more advertise that it should be implementation on the
business model. By using the social media platforms like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. It
help in establish a good connection with your customers.
 Conservation of natural resources: Business owner save the natural resources such as
land, water, air and fossil fuels. It also helps in reduce the pollution. It protect the harmful
environment . One of the best benefits of running a eco friendly business is helps in slow the
change of climate. It ensure to shape future gnerations by all factors.
Disadvantages of Sustainable innovation:
 Takes more time: Implement a eco friendly business model takes more time to complete it.
Employees need to be patient. Collecting a perishable wastes and non perishable wastes in
separate container take a time consume process. Hence, this should be continuous
improvement of employees.
 Substantial initial investment: For startup of eco friendly business, it consider the initial
investment in eco friendly business takes a two to three years. it takes a long term decision
In the future, we cannot save the expenses.
 Data risks: Subsequently implement the eco friendly business, most companies going on a
paperless. They running the business in digital platforms like website, mail, any other social
media channels etc. but data leaks become a significance issues. Due to the reasons of
computer viruses and crash, personal data of employees is theft, it turns a several issues.
Therefore company prefer the traditional type of documents.
Importance of sustainable innovation: Biobean Company
1. The impact of negative environment led to the knowing about the sustainability to reduce
the ecological footmark. company mindset and consumer preferences are changes, the
demand for sustainable goods and services has increased.(Franceschelli, Santoro and
Candelo, 2018) Biobean is innovation business that aims to close the coffee waste and it
brings a positive impact on the economic development of a country.

2. It is improving the brand reputation of the bio bean company and also advantage
sustainability to improve the business activity of efficiency. Biobean improves the brand
image reputation that aims to turn coffee waste in piece of land into eco friendly fuels for
power the london buses.
3. Due to positive changes in the environment, Innovation is always considered the significant
measure of company success. For innovation, close connection is require between the
individual purpose and corporate purpose. A clear direction is requirements for employees
to recognize how sustainability fits into the company's goals. Biobeans ambition is to help
coffee companies to reduce the carbon dioxide gases to without waste of coffee. (Pieroni,
McAloone, and Pigosso, 2019). Product life cycle of coffee helps to develop the innovative
business to realize their eco friendly goals.
4. Sustainable innovation creates a finance function leadership of business. Bio beans company
aim to integrate well established systems controlled by large company. Biofuel bridges the
waste product management and sustainable energy sectors, and creating an opportunity in
financial system of business. It is to ensure the necessary financial skills and to guide the
financial sustainability of the business in the organization.
Current sustainability lifestyle :
 It enables sustainable lifestyle in a climate emergency: This policy made from the values
and standard to economic factors, government regulations and infrastructure to what forces
shape the lifestyles.
 1.5 degree lifestyles towards a fair consumption space for all: take a sample of 10
countries such as middle, low and high countries to analyze the carbon footmark and also
identify the hotspot to bring positive impact on th environment.
 Covid 19 impacts : It influences that how people lives and how to make a lifestyle in covid
19 pandemic and how it impacts the environment.
GIBBS' REFLECTIVE MODEL:
Gibbs reflective cycle is a cyclical model by graham gibbs in 1988 to give structure to
learning from experiences. It is a framework that puts focus on repeat the experiences, allow you to
learn the things that either went well or did not go well. (Kusi-Sarpong, Gupta and Sarkis, 2019). It
covers 6 stages of reflective cycle model are description model, feeling model, evaluation model,
analysis model , conclusion and action plan models. Those details are mention follows:
1. Descriptive model: I have experienced from how bio bean company is developing an eco
friendly fuel from coffee waste to power london buses. I have experienced from the bio bean

company that the requirement of skills like interpersonal, communication skills, problem
solving and decision making skills and organisation skills etc. Also I have to gain the
experience in leadership roles and take advantage of all opportunities.
2. Feelings: I explore about the bio bean company is a amazing and unique open minded
company that I have to realised that eco friendly fuel is a sustainable to the environment.
(Lüdeke‐Freund, 2020). Also I have to gained the knowledge for working in the recycling
coffee factory. It feels like a excited that we have worked as a leadership roles.
3. Evaluation: I have leading a meeting or committee in the organization in order to develop
the eco friendly business. I have experienced that all the problem solving from the company
in order to enhanced the skills like technical, innovative, analytic and interpersonal skills
that I have ability to do work as well. I have offered the sustainable products for a range of
markets both for consumer and industrial. It brings to make a positive situation in the
organization. Also I try to face a difficult to challenges the decision making skills,
communication skills and leadership skills in the organization. It brings to make a negative
situation in the organization.
4. Analysis: I have to finding a solutions for eco friendly fuel that i have divert grounds from
waste and recycling the coffee waste then we save 80% on carbon dioxide emissions
compared to letting go to landfill. Which means that unique coffee recycling service, and
also we have opportunity to raise our business sustainability credentials and we achieving a
zero waste targets. I work with the waste management and logistics companies to collect
coffee grounds from coffee shops and office to airports and factory for businesses at every
scale. (Neutzling and et. al., 2018)I try to make a coffee logs from recycled coffee at piece
of land as an alternative solid fuel for stoves and wood
5. Conclusion: I have learned about the biobean company is a world first coffee recycling
factory in england. I have improved the brand image of bio bean company that aims to turn
coffee waste at piece of land into eco friendly fuels for power the london buses. I have
ability to do work in an effective and efficient manner and finally I have established the
consumer retail product like coffee logs and coffee pellets to meet the needs of new and
potential customers. So many customers realise the benefit of ecofriendly living. (Tebaldi,
Bigliardi, B. and Bottani, 2018) I used to focus on reducing the waste of energy and
manufacturing. I have to gained the experience of innovative and technical skills to have a
develop the product life cycle of coffee and it helps the businesses to realize their sustainabe
goals. I have to ensure the necessary financial skills and I have to guide the financial
sustainability of the business in the organization.
6. Action plan: People describe how they will deal with similar situations in future and how to

do better next time. I have to improve the skills for ability to work as well like
communication, motivation and leadership skills. I have to develop the sustainable products
to work with effectively and efficiently manner. And continously I have to leading a meeting
with other peoples. I try to focusing on the zero waste manufacturing and solar energy. I
have to build to make a eco friendly fuel in a systematic manner.(Lee, and Trimi, 2021). I
will do differently that we can take a coffee waste recycle into the beverage industry. I can
produces a coffee in a different natural flavour like french vanilla, caramel macchiato,
pumpkin spice, mocha and hazelnut etc. it improve the brand image of coffee in the world. It
will attract the more customers. It can helps to increase the economic development of a
country in the future.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that the concept and importance of sustainable
innovation is a essential task for the study and learning the effective application used in the real
world. It is known that the every time, organisation initiates to enhance something new and
innovation for the customer so that they can have the require and depth theoretical and practical
knowledge of concept and importance of sustainable innovation consideration with Bio bean
company in the business. Hence, it is vital for the company to have the effective working by which
they can sue the sustainable innovation for the business. It is needed to analyze and examine the
continuous improvement to assessing the gibbs reflective cycle of sustainability. It is essential to
have a proper knowledge about the 6 stages of reflective of sustainability ideals of business. It is
imperative for analyse the project methodology and tool used for the specific projects. Thus, this
report will cover all such areas in order to enhance the better understanding the concept and
importance of sustainable innovation.

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