How can the integration of sustainability concepts harmonize with an organization's enduring strategic aspirations and objectives?

Identify and describe an American firm of your choice that is challenged in its production operations to support its basic business needs to manufacture a high-quality product, safely, within budget, and on schedule. Its operations management is characterized by a culture that supports the vision and mission statements. This business problem (its production operations) includes a mismanaged supply chain, massive overtime wage payouts to make up for lost time injuries, increasing turnover and no shows at the work site, and where there is a spike in customer complaints resulting in business loss and narrowing profit margins.   As a decision maker, what action plan would you recommend to the senior leadership of the organization to take it from its current conditions to bring it closer to its ideal operating conditions (to become a company known for zero-defects, excellence in supply chain management, customer satisfaction, safe and reliable high-quality products, value to the customer,…

A company achieves sustainable competitive advantage when:  Answer        D)    its strategy and its business model are well-matched and in sync.        C)      it is consistently able to achieve both its strategic and financial objectives.        B)    it has a profitable business model.           A)    an attractive number of buyers have a lasting preference for its products or services as compared to the offerings of competitors.

Provide examples of organizations that experienced the repercussions of not prioritizing sustainability. How people might react to organizations and products that don't prioritize sustainability from a consumer perspective. Consider how factors such as age, geographic location, and finances might affect consumers' reactions. Provide reasons to justify prioritizing organizational sustainability.