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21 Unternehmen der Zukunft 3/2011 UdZ Aktuelle Forschungsvorhaben performance. Sustainable value creation is the key contribution of enterprises to sustainability, i. e. to create long-term value on an economi- cally, socially and environmentally sustainable basis. More and more enterprises are taking partial steps towards this goal, but they do not use a comprehensive approach to manage sustainability at the value-network level and inevitably deliver sub-optimisation at best. Individual businesses cannot deliver the system changes required at the value-network level. Collaboration among partners with respect to economic, ecological and social sustainability can and must be enabled by developing attrac- tive and common approaches for sustainable manufacturing and services. At the enterprise level, products and services have to be safe and ecologically sound throug- hout their life cycle. Furthermore, they have to be appropriate, designed to be durable, repai- rable, readily recyclable, compostable, or easily biodegradable. Besides these requirements, they should also be transported, stored, delivered, and commissioned for use in an eco-efficient, economic, and socially responsible manner. Roadmap of the SustainValue project To fulfil these requirements, all phases shown in figure 2 need to be accumulated with new methods and tools to ensure and control a su- stainable manufacturing during the whole life cycle. Therefore, first of all the sustainability gaps need to be analysed, and the requirements of the several stakeholders need to be detected and determined. After this analysis of stakeholders´ equirements, new sustainable business models need to be adapted or to be created. These new business models are dealing with interfaces and collaborations between different entrepreneurs to increase the efficiency of the value network. The models can be concretized to a lower level and worked out in process plans. Up to this level, the different phases shown in figure 2 need to be elaborated. Sustainable performance standards have to be defined in a way that the measure- ment of the efficiency of new models, concepts, methods and tools will be enabled. This is the way how to reach a profitable, environment friendly and social acceptable manufacturing for the future. Literatur [1] Rana, P.; Platts, J.; Gregory, M.: Exploration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in food manufacturing companies. In: Queen’s Discussion Paper Series on Corporate Responsibility Research 2(2009). Queen’s University Management School, Belfast. Figure 2: Phases of a product life cycle Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Dirk Wagner (li.) FIR, Bereich Dienstleistungsmanagement Fachgruppe Service-Engineering Tel.: +49 241 47705-241 E-Mail: Dirk.Wagner@fir.rwth-aachen.de Dipl.-Ing. Christian Grefrath (re.) FIR, Bereich Dienstleistungsmanagement Fachgruppe Service-Engineering Tel.: +49 241 47705-234 E-Mail: Christian.Grefrath@fir.rwth-aachen.de