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Follow up ... Problem is 10 Billion ... Solution is meaningful metrics about things that really matter

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Peter Burgess

Follow up ... Problem is 10 Billion ... Solution is meaningful metrics about things that really matter

Peter Burgess 9/15/13

to krishen.mehta

Dear Krishen

I was delighted to meet you this morning at Heavenly Rest.

There is a lot of material on my website ... not particularly well organized, and probably more helpful to me than to anyone else, but it does show some of my story up to now

I wrote this as a 'hand-out' or aide memoire before going to the Stephen Emmott event. I expected little in the way of 'solution', just a better description of a problem, but nothing much to actual change behavior in a meaningful way. This is exactly what happened!
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00005460

Recently Daniel Aronson wrote on the Sustainable Brands blog about 'New Metrics for Sustainability'. The text of the article and my response is here. It describes the framework I am looking to develop and get deployed:
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00005430

This is a message to Sustainable Brands (who are organizing a New Metrics conference soon) making the case for the framework of metrics that seems to me to be the best way forward. In this there is a focus on the product chain component:
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00005431

This is a message posted in the LInkedIn group ' B Team' discussion ' Update on the B-Base idea for Germany'. The B Team initiative was launched on June 13 by Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz and about 15 other high profile leaders with great fanfare ... but nothing very much is coming from the B Team leadership. On the other hand some lower level networks might get something going that is worth something. This is one such:
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00005416

I wrote this about an article by Mike Townsend in the Guardian ... again on LinkedIn. It has another version of the description of the planned system. Mike Townsend is in the final stages of writing a book / paper on Capitalism 2.0. I am talking to him about Accounting 2.0 or Metrics 2.0 or something like that.
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt00005377

My efforts to write a book about this has progressed a bit ... but there is a long way to go. The basic shape of the book can be seen here, but I do not really want to write a book, but want to see a new accounting framework adopted that really works.
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=txt20090003

This is probably way more than you really want to see ... so I won't send more now. I wish I had an appropriate PDF to send, but the ones I have do not reflect what I described to you this morning ... a multi- dimension impact accounting system ... which has both Triple Bottom Line (People, Profit, Planet) and multiple perspectives for reporting (Organization, Place and Product) and action feedback to people about product (impact to offset advertising and PR) and organization (economic activity in a place) where you can actually see business behavior.

All sorts of contact information is below ... the blogs have not been used in a very long while. Too much to keep up with!

Peter
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Krishen Mehta 9/17/13 to me Peter, it was a pleasure to have met you too. Thanks very much for the e-mail below. I look forward to studying your comments in more detail over the next few days. The book idea seems very well structured, particularly the details about each chapter. I hope you will continue to work on that project. With best regards, Krishen.