Work Block 5 Nov 5 - Nov 18

Context: Scandic Hotels – How does a services company transform its competitive position and its bottom line by becoming a Natural Step company? Please refer to chapter 5 of the book.

This pdf link will provide you with a short backgrounder from the Natural Step newsletter. My old site will help you see how we measure and the framework for accounting and tax affects our actions.

Questions:
i. How do values affect a business?
ii. What are the key trends in customer values that create a good business proposition to be a good business?
iii. What is the power of a new type of measurement?
iv. What is the impact on suppliers of a core business that shifts?

Work: Final Assignment. You are the Minister of Agriculture on PEI. You are preparing a report to Cabinet on what is really going on in Agriculture and what you propose to do. Due Nov 18. We will discuss how this will work in public on the discussion group