Integrating environmental considerations into companies: A network of actions to define environmental roadmaps

Taking into account various environmental requirements and a large number of environmental initiatives, our research work strives to provide a systemic management tool to facilitate the integration of environmental considerations into companies. The assumption is that a systemic definition of the “interactions” between different possible environmental actions could help generate a more efficient trajectory for meeting corporate environmental objectives. Based on an in-depth analysis of the environmental actions included in more than 300 existing environmental methods and tools, we propose a network of environmental activities. This network is based on four items: 46 environmental objectives, 126 action units, 122 relations and a detailed description of the operational conditions for each action. Using this network of environmental actions, two companies were able to generate potential solutions for their environmental roadmap according to their objectives and particular contexts. These two industrial experiments revealed that the network of environmental actions was able to help the companies to establish suitable and sometimes innovative roadmaps integrating product and site-oriented approaches.