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Look Outside Your Industry for Success.
Apply That Success To Your Company.
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Look for Short And Long-Term Opportunities
Empower Employees to Find Waste.
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Capture Your Opportunities.
Harvest Your Tangible Benefits.
Renaissance, Research, Analysis and Commentary
We are at the doorstep of a new Renaissance. The future is yours to create. Learn a flexible mindset that scans for opportunities. As an advisor of Strategies, Sustainability and Continuous Improvement, Systems Thinking and embracing the change you want in your organization could help promote your competitive advantage.
Harvest Opportunities
Transformation is a journey. That journey is based on a forward thinking approach to discover new and better ways to improve efficiency, productivity, performance and profitability. In the current environment, the work we perform, how we do it, where we do it and the process of actually completing the task is undergoing a significant paradigm shift. By combining Sustainability and other management disciplines and principles, your organization will be better tuned to see new opportunities while executing your Continuous Improvement process.
Understanding how to extract benefits from Pragmatic Sustainability, how it impacts your organization and how to leverage your results enables you to use those Transformation changes to your advantage. The key is system thinking and here are some pragmatic examples:
- Can you understand where uncertainty lies and can you mitigate it?
- Do you need to reduce your organizational complexity and make it simple or do you reorganize that complexity into another structure that better fits your business?
- Does your strategic planning incorporate Sustainability and if not, what are your major planning objectives for this holistic approach?
Your success will be measured by satisfying your Customer’s needs, having a high performance organization to address those needs, recognizing how Sustainability will impact your products and services, and leveraging the strength of your Supplier’s expertise. We are in a global marketplace where waste is no longer acceptable and its costs affect your operation’s profitability and survivability.
Recognizing the value chain of any product line illustrates the components required to extract the material, creates the product and delivers the product to the customer. A number of sources have been published that address efficiency, performance, and total elimination of “waste “ within the enterprise. However, most business models do not reflect environmental, economic, and social considerations; or their consequences to our biosphere.
If you are considering business changes or if you answer “yes” to any of these benefits, then contact us for an appointment to discuss our pragmatic and integrated Transformation Business services:
- Cut costs and enhance efficiency
- Identify and mitigate risks
- Open up new competitive and revenue opportunities
- Drive innovation for new products and services
- Improve employee development and retention
“Horizons and Awareness” is our blog that illustrates our unique approach, mindset and impact of transformation through Sustainability. Read over 120+ articles, book excerpts, research and occasional commentaries dating back to 2008. Transparency is a tool embraced by almost all Sustainability enterprises and JBS also believes it is one of the best ways for our Customers to become acquainted with our mindset.
Sustainability is a holistic business model for the 21st century. From a business perspective, it is a long-term strategy that eliminates waste, both externally and internally, while supporting the survivability of your enterprise. Listen to the wisdom of corporate leadership:
- Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, said; “A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.”
- Peter Drucker also said; “Do not simply cling to your past successes, be willing to change, adopt new ideas and continually review all the different segments of business.”
He continues to be active in outreach and speaking engagements and has been invited to speak about Sustainability at:
- DFW Project Management Institute
- DFW APICS (Supply Chain)
- DFW American Society for Quality
- Texas Tech University – Rawls School of Business
He was invited to speak at Texas Tech University – Rawls School of Business to discuss Pragmatic Sustainability. His book is now being used as a text book for their leadership class for graduate and under graduate students.
Publications
Pragmatic solutions are often built around a framework that focuses on the strategies, provides governance, avoids duplicate efforts and measures the results that translate into tangible benefits.
Since founding JBS, he focused his efforts on Sustainability research and development of intellectual capital. He has written two books on Sustainability and has plans to expand that ongoing research into topics of managing a corporation in an uncertain world.
Ralph Jarvis wrote “Any Questions?!” (ISBN 1461072824), published in 2011, that reflect his research suggesting that company Leadership is constantly searching for better ways to do business. He feels that while many are considering Sustainability projects individually, few are looking to fuse Sustainability with the Lean Six Sigma. “Any Questions?” is a book for Owners and Executives. It is an Executive Primer for Sustainable Transformation, driven by Lean and Six Sigma practices.
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Texas Tech Rawls College of Business has selected this book for the their Fall 2014 Business Leadership Class. The Rawls College of Business is ranked 87th out of the top Business schools in the United States.
“Building a Bridge to Benefits” (ISBN 1494213923), published in 2013, provides Owners and Executives understanding how and where Sustainability can improve performance and efficiency. This book provides a step-by-step approach, from Vision to Waste to Tangible Benefits, in molding an organization into a Sustainable Developed enterprise. Building a Bridge to Benefits is a top-down approach to transforming a corporation into a Sustainable Developed enterprise.
Environmentalist will say Sustainability is doing more with less. But that does not communicate the real business value to an executive. Business leaders want and need to understand how tangible benefits can be extracted to increase profitability and provide a stronger competitive advantage. This book builds on the case for “Pragmatic Sustainability” that creates a competitive advantage by using Sustainability principles.
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Leadership is Multidimensional
- VISION: “Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.” ~ Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State
- SUSTAINABILITY: “In the next decade, the most successful companies will be those that integrate sustainability into their core businesses.” ~ Jim Owens, CEO Caterpillar
- ASPIRATION: “You can buy people with your wallet or stimulate them with your academic prowess, but neither lasts long. What you need is their hearts… They need to believe in what they are doing.” ~ Andrew Liveris, CEO, Dow Chemical
- STRATEGY: “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” ~ Sun Tzu, Philosopher
- COMMITMENT: “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ~ Peter F. Drucker, Strategy Consultant
- INSPIRATION: “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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