A new visualization approach for sustainability

Abstract

Organizations sustainability is increasingly measured by the general public. But does a suitable way always exist to present both the target sustainability as well as the current sustainability in a stakeholder oriented manner? Today especially the management needs a tool, which is efficient and easy to understand to reach a stakeholder oriented sustainability presentation. In our contribution we discuss advantages and disadvantages of existing approaches to visualize sustainability. Moreover, we present our triangular pyramid of sustainability, which is the result of a new threedimensional visualization approach. It solves many problems of existing sustainability visualization approaches. In a nutshell, our contribution presents a visualization approach that enables manager to determine the quality and quantity of sustainability as well as to conduct sustainability comparisons between and within organizations but also between different periods