Learn in less than 7 slides or 2 minutes how a different approach to sustainability may be your small business competitive advantage.

1. Sustainability
Your
Competitive
Advantage
Silos, Fiefdoms or Transformations
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2. Competitive Advantage:
Desired End Results
•Sustainability in:
•Long Term Growth
•Engaged Workforce
•Systems Thinking
•Improved Productivity
•Customer Loyalty
•Stewardship
•Profitability

3. Symptoms of Cultural
Dysfunction
•In Process
•Silo mentality between departments
•Variation in quality
•Strategic focus lacking
•In People
•Fiefdom mentality between roles
•Reactionary management
•Self interest
•In Environment
•Sustainability considered an expense
•More “compliance stuff”
•Non-competitive

4. The Obstacles to Competitive
Advantage
•Process
•People
•Environment
•People/Process
•People/Environment
•Process/Environment

5. 30,000 Foot View When All Works
Together

6. How to Secure Your
Competitive
Advantage
Five Stages or Levels
1: Recognize sustainability can be your
competitive advantage
2: Initiate and integrate sustainability
within your strategic plan
3: Implement through departments
using predetermined benchmarks
4: Operationalized through supply chain
and employee ongoing development
5: Transform with continued focus on
people, process, environment and profit

7. Yes You Can Be
Competitive,
Profitable and
Sustainable
If you want a new approach that goes
beyond the common and not so effective
“just be green mentality” and realize this
is significant change management issue,
then it may be worth a call to:
Leanne Hoagland-Smith, CRO & Heurist
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
219.759.5601 CST
coach@processspecialist.com
Located near Chicago, IL.
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