Auflistung nach Autor:in "Grevenstette, Philipp"

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Analysis and exploitation of resource efficiency potentials in industrial small and medium-sized enterprises - Experiences with the EDIT Value Tool in Central Europe
(2017) Dobes, Vladimir; de Graaf, Daniel; Fresner, Johannes; Krenn, Christina; Dorer, Conrad; Grevenstette, Philipp
Material and energy costs represent about 50% of the operating costs incurred by European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although the potential for resource efficiency improvements is high, the necessary awareness and human resource capacities to explore this potential are limited. Existing tools for exploration of resource efficiency improvement potentials have several shortcomings: they are either tool-driven, of a solely qualitative nature or do not address all levels of a business. Users of such tools therefore miss important improvement opportunities. In order to overcome these limitations and to systematically identify, quantify and fully explore resource efficiency improvement potentials, an international team developed and tested a new comprehensive, needs-driven and quantitative diagnosis tool named the ĺEDIT Value Tool.̷ This tool can be used to perform initial diagnoses for companies. The EDIT Value Tool was piloted in eighteen manufacturing SMEs in six Central European countries. Evaluation of the test results showed that the tool is effective in helping company personnel to identify the main weaknesses and the potentials for company improvements. The tool achieves this by evaluating a business's characteristics: its stakeholder values, the corporate strategy to implement its mission and vision, assessment of the effectivity of the company's management systems, processes and products. The benefits of using the EDIT Value Tool that were of most benefit to the companies were the proposed changes to corporate technology and management. The collection of quantitative and qualitative data helped company personnel to develop new perspectives on how to monitor and to improve resource efficiency and to increase awareness of and commitment to more sustainable manufacturing systems. Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Promotion of resource efficiency within SMEs in Central Europe: A pilot study of the EDIT Value Tool
(2016) Grevenstette, Philipp; Dorer, Conrad; Graaf, Daniel de
This master thesis deals with the evaluation of the analysis tool EDIT Value (Eco-innovation Diagnosis and Implementation Tool for Increase of Enterprise Value) with respect to the tool’s pilot phase. The tool developed in the course of the EU project PRESOURCE (Promotion of Resource Efficiency in SMEs in Central Europe) to reveal potentials for increasing resource efficiency in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was tested in different SMEs within the six partner countries of PRESOURCE. The companies as well as the consultants implementing the tool were interviewed on their experiences with EDIT Value, thus providing the basis for the evaluation of the tool. To facilitate a structured interview one questionnaire each for the companies and the consultants was compiled addressing the questions of interests; whether the tool in fact succeeds in revealing potentials for increasing resource efficiency, whether it works holistically and need-driven as intended, whether unforeseen challenges occurred and after all how the tool was accepted by the companies and the consultants. On basis of the feedback from the companies and consultants eventually improvement measures regarding the tool were developed.