baseline and plan
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Putting it into Action
Vision, baseline and creating a plan
Contents
Creating a vision / statement of intent
Baseline – Where are you now?
Brainstorming actions
Creating a Plan
Now do...
”Backcasting” from your vision
Time
VisionPurpose
Core values
Sustainability principles
Strategic goals
Action programPart-time goals
TIME?
Backcasting
Baseline- where are you now?
1. Enable you to see what your organisation or business looks like today.
2. Analyse current operations as part of the larger system.
3. Compile information about the patterns and resource flow in relation to and through your organisation or business.
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Understand
Vision
Baseline
Plan / do
Measure
Common approach
Source: Qualmark Green Self Assessment for Business
Seeing the whole picture
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Supply chain systems
Whole System
The Organisational System
What do we deliver?
Earlier stages inthe supplier
chain
Use of product/service
What do we depend on?
What is left?
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Energy
Water
Transport
Land, Building, Equipment
Investment
People
Products
Services
Waste
By-products
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What is left from the customer?
How to re-design
• Identify the potential to work towards eliminating the violations to the systems conditions.
• Identify where the business can change it’s process of business and production from a linear to a cyclical process.
• Understand the demand from the consumer to ensure that the business is fulfilling the demand and eliminating waste from it’s processes.
Case study: Interface Carpets
• Global company – Interface Inc
• NZ franchise – Interface NZ
• Sustainable, design-led flooring systems
http://www.interfacenz.com/
Providing sustainable, design led flooring solutions
Goals – Interface Carpets
TowardsSustainable Practice
Plan / Do
Outline
• Plan - set strategy
• Designing
– Prioritising Questions
• Case Study: Whistler Pipe Line
– Prioritising Actions
• Short term, medium term and long term
• Do – take action
Understand
Vision
Baseline
Plan / do
Measure
Four Prioritising Questions (Criteria)
Does this initiative move us toward our shared Vision of Success and Sustainability objectives?
Will this initiative deliver change in time?
Is the initiative a good investment?
Does the initiative present a flexible platform for further movement toward Success in the future?
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Do – Take Action!
• Don’t get stuck in strategy. Step by step take action towards your vision.
• Strategic planning is only helpful as long as the strategy is implemented.
• Please note, although it is not covered in this course it is not only important in understand the framework for sustainable practice but also the management practices and processes that must be used for the application of the framework.
• As recommended at the front of the course and available in M5: Optional Reading, the 5th Discipline by Peter Senge is particularly helpful.