Designing for superior business performance
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Choice 2: Where we play - Assess opportunities, obligations and threats
Assess opportunities and threats from the environmental trends and events.
In this chapter
Assess environmental factors that can affect the demand for your value proposition, influence the direction your value proposition needs to move to maintain relevance and demand.
Assess environmental factors that can affect your costs of production or cost of supply or supply availability.
Introduction - environmental factors driving change
Describes the trends, events and implications from weather extremes, pollution / waste management, temperature changes (carbon emissions), natural disasters, Stewardship of natural resources (like fresh water, air, vegetation) on the future expectations for the demand and supply for the products / services the business produces or could produce.
Environmental assessment
Capture, investigate and sustain (journal style) the relevant environmental expectations, trends and events for each type of environmental / sustainability influence.
Management of natural resources
Responsible management of natural resources..
| Observations |
Record your observations in here e.g. Taxes for customer segments we serve are proposed to be reduced. What are you seeing? |
| Beliefs |
What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? e.g. Consumers will have more disposable income after taxes. What are you believing? |
| Expectations |
What are your expectations from this / these beliefs. Consumer demand may not increase as usually expected, from an increase in consumer income, until consumer confidence picks up following stabilisation of inflation, interest rates and energy costs. What are you expecting to happen? |
Concerns about and responses to extremes in weather
Events and trends because of actual, potential, or increased concerns about extreme weather.
| Observations |
Record your observations in here e.g. Taxes for customer segments we serve are proposed to be reduced. What are you seeing? |
| Beliefs |
What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? e.g. Consumers will have more disposable income after taxes. What are you believing? |
| Expectations |
What are your expectations from this / these beliefs. e.g. Consumer demand may not increase as usually expected, from an increase in consumer income, until consumer confidence picks up following stabilisation of inflation, interest rates and energy costs. What are you expecting to happen? |
Carbon footprint
Reduced or eliminated carbon footprint ambitions directed toward sustaining of influencing demand, in preference to non-carbon responsible offering and assuring responsible emissions in supply or production costs in this external environment.
| Observations |
Record your observations in here What are you seeing? |
| Beliefs |
What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? What are you believing? |
| Expectations |
What are your expectations from this / these beliefs. What are you expecting to happen? |
Pollution and waste management
Responsible pollution and waste management opportunities and expectations influencing demand, supply or production costs in this external environment.
| Observations |
Record your observations in here What are you seeing? |
| Beliefs |
What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? What are you believing? |
| Expectations |
What are your business expectations from this / these beliefs. What are you expecting to happen? |
Management and sustaining natural resources
Opportunities for sustaining natural resources and growing or sustaining demand, supply or production costs in this external environment.
| Observations |
Record your observations in here What are you seeing? |
| Beliefs |
What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? What are you believing? |
| Expectations |
What are your business expectations from this / these beliefs. What are you expecting to happen? |
Summary
Environment factors and responsibilities influencing demand and business operations.
| Observations |
Record your observations in here What are you seeing? |
| Beliefs |
What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? What are you believing? |
| Expectations |
What are your business expectations from this / these beliefs. What are you expecting to happen? |
Continue your assessment
Continue on to the Next section to start with an assessment of what legal factors could influence current and future demands for your value proposition or the cost to deliver it. You can do this for each of your where to play arena(s), or return the Guide home to choose a different option.
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