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Sustainability Your Competitive AdvantageSilos, Fiefdoms or Transformations
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Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Competitive Advantage:Desired End Results
•Sustainability in:•Long Term Growth•Engaged Workforce•Systems Thinking•Improved Productivity•Customer Loyalty•Stewardship•Profitability
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
The Obstacles to Competitive Advantage
•Process•People•Environment•People/Process•People/Environment•Process/Environment
30,000 Foot View When All Works Together
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
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
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
219.759.5601 CST
Located near Chicago, IL.
ADVANCED SYSTEMSThe Next Generation for ACE Talent
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