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What if you were able to help your company grow faster and become more profitable than its rivals? Would you benefit as a result? Of course you would. What if your approach required little cash, caused nominal disruption, and was easily understandable by all your colleagues? What reason would you have for not helping your company outperform the competition?    Enhance business performance by using sustainability for competitive advantage The Future of Value reveals what it takes for companies to grow and outperform the competition in today's growth-constrained, sustainability conscious world.  The author, Eric Lowitt, shows leaders and students alike how to use sustainability as a powerful, pragmatic lens to enhance business performance. The Future of Value explores how to craft and oversee a portfolio of effective tools, develop competitive strategies, and adjust value chain activities, talent management practices, and corporate policies to help organizations execute powerful sustainability strategies.   Lowitt provides a systematic, yet instantly familiar, model all companies can use to connect sustainability with their growth and competitive strategies. In this way, the author shows leaders how to shape, color, and own The Future of Value.  The Future of Value draws useful and accessible conclusions from a rich, diverse set of corporate interviewees. A core part of his research was the selection and interrogation of more than 25 Global Fortune 500 companies' sustainability, strategy, and finance leads. In total, Eric interviewed over 100 senior executives, worldwide, to create The Future of Value. Eric Lowitt, is a 15-year veteran of sustainability and strategy management consulting, having worked with clients in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe. He has an MBA in Strategic Management from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and writes a regular column for the Harvard Business Review, the Guardian, and the Christian Science Monitor.

The Future of Value: How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation

How six industries are collaborating with competitors, society, and the public sector for competitive advantage No longer can we consume the equivalent of 1.3 Earths resources and expect to remain prosperous in perpetuity. We need a new economic paradigm, one that yields growth in a way that strengthens the global systems we rely on daily for survival, such as the global water, food, and energy systems. The Collaboration Economy—a model where the private, public, and civil sectors collaborate for prosperity that can last in perpetuity—is emerging. But what does this economic model look like? How does it work?  How can companies survive and thrive in the Collaboration Economy? The Collaboration Economy provides easy to use frameworks and tools to enable leaders of industry, of government, and of society to lead the effort to align growth with sustainable development.Offers a plan for how the private, public, and civil sectors can successfully collaborate to steward resources, fortify global water, food, and energy systems, and spark a new era of prosperity at the same timeContains case study profiles of the leaders of the Collaboration Economy, including Unilever, GE, Coca-Cola, Nestle Waters North America, Grieg Green, and the European ParliamentWritten by Eric Lowitt, a globally recognized and sought after consultant, thought leader, and speaker in the fields of competitive strategy, growth, and sustainability, who has been named one of the Global Top 100 Thought Leaders on Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America

The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage

You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to out-think” your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool.In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling.Exemplars of analytics are using new tools to identify their most profitable customers and offer them the right price, to accelerate product innovation, to optimize supply chains, and to identify the true drivers of financial performance. A wealth of examplesfrom organizations as diverse as Amazon, Barclay’s, Capital One, Harrah’s, Procter & Gamble, Wachovia, and the Boston Red Soxilluminate how to leverage the power of analytics.

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

Harvard Business Review article I wrote, published in the April 2014 edition. The article equips senior managers to future proof their businesses by integrating mitigation steps to limit their climate change risk into their daily business activities.

How To Survive Climate Change and Still Run a Thriving Business

Globally recognized sustainability, strategy, and leadership speaker and thought leader. Successful business practitioner and researcher with broad business management experience with focus on strategy formulation and execution, organization design and customer acquisition and retention. Current focus on the formulation and execution of the corporate response to sustainability in order to create shareholder and stakeholder value.

Experience in the energy, financial services, manufacturing, technology, consumer products, and retail industries.

Specialties: sustainability, strategy formulation, strategy execution, organization design, post merger integration, analytics, collaboration, customer loyalty, and employee engagement

Competitive Strategy

Sustainability Management

Stakeholder Management

Collaboration and Competition

How to Outperform Your Rivals

Selling to Chief Sustainability Officers

Future of Business

Innovation

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Advisory Firm: Sustainability Strategy and Collaboration

The Future of Business

The Collaboration Economy

National Safety Council

Sustainability, Stakeholder Management, and You

This talk has helped hundreds of executives turn sustainability into the basis for successful competitive strategy for their companies. The talk has three parts. The first part brings sustainability to life for the audience; 2nd a detailed review of the five characteristics of high performance companies that succeed by tying sustainability to their competitive strategies; 3rd a detailed review of Eric's proprietary CLEAR Model - which shows how to tie sustainability to competitive strategy.

How Sustainability Will Help You Outperform Your Rivals

This talk, which can also be a workshop, helps corporate sales and business development teams increase sales and deepen relationships with clients by translating their companies' sustainability efforts into compelling sales points. More and more companies have installed chief sustainability officers to oversee their sustainability efforts. Yet few companies know how to sell to these new executives. This talk will equip your sales force to sell more...and more effectively.

Selling to Chief Sustainability Officers: Your New Best Clients

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VP Global Energy & Sustainability

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Head, Market Based Approaches Track

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Eric Lowitt, Architect of Sustainability Strategy, and author of "The Future of Value, offers practical tips and immediately actionable frameworks to help co...

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