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2012 DCMME/GSCMI Fall Operations Conference on Sustainability
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Featured Speaker
Karen Schultz MA, AIP (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner), Business Developer, WALCO Tool & Engineering
An entrepreneur Karen wanted to pay for her education while she learned, Karen
Schultz received her associates degree in art and special education while researching, “Why Art is Fundamental to Learning, and the Innovative Edge and Health of our Country.”
She pursued her interests in business with a focus on organizational behavior and development, while working with behavior disorder students in K-8. Her students taught her about the importance of being happy and its effects on your circle of influence.
She found herself being pursued by a small manufacturer, WALCO Tool & Engineering, to diversify their portfolio.
Background
Karen received her associates degree in art and special education while researching, “Why Art is Fundamental to Learning, and the Innovative Edge and Health of our Country.”
She attended to earning a Master’s Degree full time, while working full time, to hope to inspire her work community of the power of education, their voice and its influence on the sustainability of their career and work community.
Building Sustainable Supply
Karen Schultz Business Developer, WALCO Tool & Engineering
Researcher, Building Sustainable Partnerships Between Rural and Corporate America
www.walcotool.com
NOTES: Sustainable Development Criteria for WALCO Tool & Engineering External Teams
WALCO Tool & Engineering A Flat, Responsive, Agile, Educated, Skilled Workforce
• Diversification of portfolio – People with a diverse background who make us whole
• Different strengths • Different backgrounds • Enjoy collaboration, are confident enough not to be defensive or
offensive • People who are focused on personal investment • People who are passionate about making stuff • People who take their citizenship seriously • People who are creative • People who understand the importance of
responsiveness, agility and why we are in business
What defines the sustainability of a business?
Is it a building?
People? Their titles, roles, levels of success in the hierarchy, pay scales,
regulations, handbooks, structure or lack of, profitability?
http://csi-global.org/content/socio-ecological-assessment-framework
Conservation Science Institute
Diagrams, Measurements, Hierarchal titles, Job Descriptions, Cultural Systems?
Global Balance of Resources?
• Minerals • Gas • Oil
• Metals • Water
• Weather • Regional Environment
Karen’s definition • A shared vision that people are and driven about fulfilling
• It is about stories behind the people • It is about realizing each other’s strengths
• Its about individual life missions • Its about writing a new story, drawing up the outline and
seeing it through to the end • People who are “in it, one for all and all for one” --with a
whatever it takes attitude With a long term vision
With the realization that there is someone who needs them to do what they do well while staying able to reinvest, grow and
stay focused on those who need results
Definitions of Sustainability
Different to each
individual
“But understanding how sustainability works…. its just common sense!”
Define Common
Sense
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Definition: Decide What to Learn About Sustainability Together as a
Seamless Team
Discovery: Opportunity Context
Positive Core
Dream: Envisioning what might be; shared
images for a preferred future
Design: Finding innovative ways to
create that future; Breakthrough propositions
Delivery: Sustaining the
Change Sustainability
SOAR vs. SWOT
% of time you spend measuring what went wrong vs. what went great and
where else to implement it!
What you focus on is what you get! Rule of Attraction
Flow Chart of RELATIONSHIPS passionate, driven
Supplier A
Supplier B
Supplier C Supplier D
Supplier E
Supplier F Supplier G
Shared Vision Delivers Quality
Service and Product
Satisfied Customer
Relationships / Seamless Teams
• Generally what happens in a business hierarchy
• Generally what happens when someone is procuring a product or service
• Generally what happens with team building process
• Generally what happens with relationships in business
• WHY is sustainability difficult?
What happens when you build a relationship?
Sustainability is not new it’s as old as life itself
and its ability to respond, stay agile and survive
• The relationship of any living system – Food / Proper balanced nutrition – Water / Liquids that bring nutrition – Compatibility / Environment = Spirituallly, mentally,
physically – Sun / Light – Death and renewal – Interdisciplinary system structures of give, take,
interactive change
If sustainability has been around since the beginning of time
Why are we still struggling with it?
S • Will sustainability be something you take the time to understand long term
– About your educationYour career • Your health • Your work community • Your family • Your neighbors • Your schools and community • Your work community • Your vision for self, for others you affect
YOU
• Are the generation with a shared vision focused on sustainability
WILL YOU, as young energetic MBAs and passionate PhD researchers
UNDERSTAND THAT BALANCE
with SUSTAINABILITY in mind is healthy long term
WE the generations before you and after you
COUNT ON your GENERATION
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Thank you, Karen !
You made whole the pieces of the puzzle!
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Q & A Brandon Pitcher Chief Sustainability Officer, 5 Kingdoms Development, LLC.
Karen Schultz MA, AIP (Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner), Business Developer for WALCO Tool & Engineering
The Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises & the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative
Sustainability October 5, 2012 Purdue University Krannert
Center Partners and Event Sponsors