People, Planet, Profit

CHAPTER 10

Implement a Strategy-to-Execution Premium

I hear you say “Why?” Always “Why?” You see things, and you say “Why” But I dream things that never were, and I say “Why not?”

—George Bernard Shaw, 1921 [257]

In the quest for achieving long-term and sustainable resource productivity in a business, we have introduced 10 elements shown in Figure I.5 and we have explored each element briefly in the various chapters. We have also described a need to “close the loop” depicted in Figure 2.2, whereby the 10 elements form a chain of activities that are self-driving and self-sustaining and are also rooted in a company’s strategy and aspirations.

But … How do we implement such a Strategy-to-Execution Premium? Where do we begin? Technically, as it ...