Innovation & Sustainability: the key to competitive advantage
The Innovation & Sustainability: the Key to Competitive Advantage workshop explores how innovation inspired by sustainability thinking and practice, can lead to improved productivity and identification of new business opportunities. Translating the latest in global thinking and best practice case studies to the local business context, this workshop will provide the opportunity for participants to discover strategies to leverage sustainability as a driver of business innovation and competitive advantage.
This workshop will cover
- Latest market trends on sustainable business practices, products & services
- Using sustainability as a lens for innovation: how does the emerging market and regulatory need for sustainability result in the next wave of business innovation this century?
- Overview of the World Economic Forum’s project to put sustainability at the heart of business models
- Life cycle thinking and whole system design for fostering innovation and collaboration throughout a company and its value chain
- International & local case studies of companies using sustainability to innovate
- A usable framework for identifying and evaluating innovations in sustainable business practice
Learning Outcomes
- Understanding of how sustainability can be used to foster product, services process and entire business model innovation
- Awareness of how to apply life cycle thinking to identify opportunities for collaboration and innovation
- Be able to identify a clear practical strategies to innovate new sustainable processes, products and services that are more competitive
- Have identified at least one new possible sustainable business innovation
- A process to continually explore new innovations
Audience:
- CEO’s, Managing Directors, Business Owners, Executives, General Managers, Sustainability Officers and Risk Managers of small, medium and large organisations.
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CONTACT US NOW to book your workshop:
Lauren Kehoe: +61 (03) 9686 7772 OR lk[AT]shapergroup.com
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