We may thank the United Nations book “Our Common Future”, often known as “the Brundtland Report”, published in 1987 for introducing the concept of sustainable development (SD). It emphasized that the capacity to guarantee that development is sustainable when it fulfils the demands of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is within humanity's grasp.
Today, sustainability goes beyond the environmental aspects to include social development and financial aspects. But how can organisations analyse their activities in light of this new broader definition of sustainability.