Innovative Business Practices for Sustainable Development

Authors

  • Ganesh Radhakrishnan Ex -Serviceman

Abstract

Organizations need to be reformed in order to provide the wealth used by a growing portion of the world's population. I trust you got my email. associated analysis of the paper Technology should play an important role in the economic transformation of society. But innovation needs to be integrated with social and organizational innovation. We need social change. Environmental design has been used in engineering design for over a decade. Its results are sometimes accused of being useless because the world does not see its importance in solving major (global) problems. The many degrees of technological development will be firstly sketched out in this study, ranging from

  • Small-scale improvements to individual artifacts to
  • major alteration to artifacts,
  • Systems evolve,
  • changes in production and consumption brought on by technological transitions

It will highlight the key players in such breakthroughs and those who can work with the new procedure. It has been argued that the highest levels of technological development, the transitional level, are necessary to achieve long-term development because they have the greatest capacity for development. However, the change is not a good one. The literature on the effects of technological change is reviewed in this article. The new system is usually ineffective after the change has occurred. Its benefits in reducing resource use or pollution should be strengthened by less innovative strategies such as innovation and product optimization. The transition to sustainable development is often not possible because new systems must compete with existing developments and optimizations that are well below the learning curve, such as optimization through many technologies and innovations. Low inclusion of innovations, including those aimed at improving security, may hinder changes that could be better made by improving competitive (no progress) technologies. This article will give a few examples of this problem and offer some suggestions for improving government policy and business strategies in this regard. At the policy level, it is argued that creating jobs (scopes) for new technologies and products is particularly important because they create experimentation opportunities that can drive change.

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Published

2023-10-21

How to Cite

Radhakrishnan, G. (2023). Innovative Business Practices for Sustainable Development. NOLEGEIN- Journal of Leadership &Amp; Strategic Management, 6(2), 1–14. Retrieved from https://mbajournals.in/index.php/JoKSM/article/view/1256