Sustainability Competitive Advantage

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Sustainabilit y Your Competitive Advantage Silos, Fiefdoms or Transformations 2012© & 2013© All Rights Reserved Leanne Hoagland-Smith

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

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Sustainability Your Competitive AdvantageSilos, Fiefdoms or Transformations

2012© & 2013© All Rights Reserved

Leanne Hoagland-Smith

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Competitive Advantage:Desired End Results

•Sustainability in:•Long Term Growth•Engaged Workforce•Systems Thinking•Improved Productivity•Customer Loyalty•Stewardship•Profitability

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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

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The Obstacles to Competitive Advantage

•Process•People•Environment•People/Process•People/Environment•Process/Environment

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30,000 Foot View When All Works Together

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How to Secure Your Competitive AdvantageFive 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

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Yes You Can Be Competitive, Profitable and SustainableIf 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

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219.759.5601 CST

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Located near Chicago, IL.

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