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Re-thinking Decision-Making Models for Improved Sustainability Performance

Business the world over is re-making itself. It’s not happening by accident – but because business is changing as players learn to visualize a new future and rethink the strategy needed to get there.

Central to this change is sustainability decision-making that’s re-aligned to be responsive to global markets impacted more and more by social and environmental realities. The new name of the game is to leverage these realities as key drivers – rather than inhibitors – of business success. Today’s leading sustainability decision-makers have internalized this shift in perspective and their decision-making techniques reflect a rethinking (or even a re-framing) of the business landscape. 

Intertek Sustainability Solutions invites you to its next Ethical Sourcing Forum, on October 7th, 2009, in Paris, France, for a ‘deep-dive’ investigation of the latest advances in sustainability decision-making.

The Ethical Sourcing Forum (ESF) is a unique industry event that brings together members of the global sustainability community in order to address emerging sustainability and ethical supply chain challenges; ESF is where you will find applied innovation and the latest solutions-development processes that yield social and environmental progress while advancing core business objectives.

The ESF mandate is to offer practical pathways for robust Return-on-Sustainability-Investment (RSI) as well as breakthrough solutions with real business value.

At this intensive, one-day edition of ESF, you and your fellow delegates will explore the latest innovations in sustainability decision-making:

Visualize: By utilizing a portfolio of innovative tools and techniques, the Visualize session will provide participants an overview of how sustainability decision-makers grapple with complex supply chain issues so you can be on a new course of Think Different - Think Smart.

• Acquire a transcontinental perspective of the top challenges and opportunities facing sustainability leaders
• Discover what new sustainability ideas, tools and resources are needed to deliver business value today
• Set the stage for high-impact decision-making by plotting areas of opportunity via an “opportunity-mapping” lab session

Re-Think: This session will focus on enhanced sustainability decision-making. We’ll examine ways of Rethinking sustainability issues and the “decision paths” undertaken by organizations emerging as sustainability leaders. Top organizational decision-makers will lead these lab sessions.

• Learn the decision-making habits of highly effective sustainability leaders 
• See how ‘decision-mapping’ can be a useful tool for achieving high-impact solutions
• Learn how to leverage your resources and implement effective solutions
• Discover how to use barriers-to-success as the basis for ‘reframing’ issues so they may be managed sustainably

Solve! We’ll gather for a hands-on collaborative sustainability decision-making/ Solutions session involving the technique of reframing - a model for examining challenges from multiple stakeholder vantage points in order to uncover previously unseen perspectives and decision paths.

• Learn the technique of “reframing” and its power to open up a whole new solutions set
• Discover how to leverage the concept of “contextual re-alignment” and what this means for breakthrough stakeholder engagement
• Experience ‘role-reversal’ as the ultimate “agenda-buster” and antidote for issues politicization

We look forward to seeing you in Paris, for the Ethical Sourcing Forum - Europe ’09!

Sincerely,

Andre Raghu

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