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Building a Sustainability Business Framework

Brimstone Consulting

CASE STUDY. Key to her success was filtering the vast amounts of materiality data, confirming and prioritizing ongoing sustainability projects around the globe, identifying internal allies, and building a case for change in parallel to the expectations of the senior leadership team. Download Case Study.

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Value Chain Analysis

Tom Spencer

Value Chain Analysis is another tool that may prove useful during the consulting case interview. It can be used to analyse the cost structure of a company as part of a declining profitability case, or to analyse the supply chain as part of an operations case. (Source: Flickr ).

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Facts, Opinions, and Conclusions

CaseInterview.com

Should we invest more in sales or R&D? A fact pack might have the following slide headlines: This business has $100 million in sales and has been growing 20% per year. The purpose of doing so is to make sure all stakeholders are informed and operating from the same identical base of facts. Lots of opinions on this.

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Profitability Framework

Tom Spencer

The profitability framework is probably the most important framework for solving consulting case questions. Value chain analysis: Consider value chain activities: access to raw materials; operating capacity; inventory handling and distribution. If prices are changed, how will this affect sales volume and product perception?

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Three C’s Framework

Tom Spencer

The Three C’s Framework may prove extremely valuable for consulting case questions. Are there opportunities to bundle or unbundle the product in order to increase sales volume? This can be done by segmenting costs into value chain activities: inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, sales & marketing, customer service.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Designing Strategic Organizations: The New Work of Executives and HR (Kesler and Kates, People & Strategy, 2010)

Kates Kesler

One of the most difficult challenges for new general managers, who have been promoted after leading functional teams in marketing, sales or operations, is to make their leadership impact scalable across and multi-dimensional organization. The first step to effective organization design is to build a business case for change.