Sustainable Business Checklists
Ensure that sustainability is a routine consideration in operational decisions at all stages of your business cycle.
The Sustainable Business Checklist is a straightforward and highly effective mechanism that ensures that your business actually institutes the changes and disseminates the knowledge needed to improve its sustainability. Many businesses already use checklists to ensure that they follow all the steps in a procedure or include all of the components in a bill of materials. Sustainable Business Checklists recast traditional checklists, focusing on sustainability in the following ways:
- They apply to complex situations with significant levels of uncertainty, where the way to achieve success or reach a milestone is highly variable from case to case.
- They crystallize conceptual insights and practical experience into operational steps. That is, they summarize key considerations about the overall situation, introducing “pause points” that require participants to review the larger context and longer-range view, enhancing the chances of identifying key assumptions that no longer hold.
- They guide standard practice and can result in dramatic improvement in performance, making team practice more effective by leveraging the combined intelligence, experience, and skills, and enforcing group norms.
- They are selective by design, listing only crucial factors to consider—those known from experience to go wrong—deliberately skipping anything that might distract from these key considerations.
Applied across all components of the SBSA approach, these Checklists can ensure that sustainability is a routine consideration in your operational decisions.
