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• Does your organization have a sound vision and strategy for sustainability?
• Are you feeling increased pressure to provide verifiable social and environmental performance data to stakeholders?
• How are you measuring the financial return on sustainability initiatives?
• Are you implementing or integrating IT systems to track your environmental goals and performance?
  

Your next business transformation challenge
As many organizations did during the quality movement some 30 years ago, today’s companies are beginning to realize that how they respond to the challenge of sustainability will profoundly impact their competitiveness—perhaps even their survival. What was simply a high-level social issue 10 years ago is now a genuine business issue with tangible business implications and significant financial consequences.

Sustainability assistance from business experts
With a focus on results, we bring deep manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain expertise to help align your sustainability objectives with other business needs, including:

• Balancing short-term financial needs and expectations with your longer-term vision
• Using proven frameworks to evaluate your potential return, risk, and long-term value derived from sustainability
• Anticipating extended business responsibilities and regulation to de-risk your business
• Integrating sustainability across business processes, systems, and stakeholders

Assistance from strategy to execution
If your organization is serious about sustainability, West Monroe Partners can help. We partner with you to analyze and understand the issues, develop strategic approaches that fit your business model, and then execute those approaches to yield tangible business benefits.

We can assist with:

• Strategy - understanding the potential benefits of investing in sustainability, identifying value opportunities, and embedding principles of sustainable leadership into decision making
• Standards - obtaining or verifying compliance with leading sustainability standards, including ULE 880, ISO 14000, and ISO 26000 in order to develop credentials and avoid misleading consumers
• Smart grid - creating a road map to your smart grid future, including impact to your infrastructure, energy use, and products
• Supply chain - evaluating supply chain decisions through a balanced sustainability lens
• Procurement - initiating or complying with sustainable procurement standards
• Closed-loop processes - creating food out of today’s waste through innovative “closed-loop” processes
• Environmental management systems - aligning business and compliance requirements to assess, select, and implement the right environmental management systems and business intelligence solutions
• Sustainable IT - measuring and improving IT impact on procurement, energy usage, and hazardous waste

Lead the transformation to sustainability
Organizations that embrace the challenge of sustainability today position themselves for significant competitive advantages. Are you ready to lead the transformation? Working with West Monroe Partners, you can.

That’s business in the right direction.