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The Challenge

As hockey legend Wayne Gretzky famously explained, “A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Gretzky was able to envision the future play, and he had a pair of sharp blades to get him to the right place. Companies likewise express their vision of where they want to be by setting sustainability goals, but in many instances they do not know how they will get there. The road map needs to be developed, which often requires a new level of expertise and innovation to meet ambitious goals in carbon, energy, water, waste and new product introduction.

The Solution

Breakthrough Acceleration is a unique, proven methodology for ramping up the internal team along with key outside experts to solve complex next-generation sustainability challenges. Carefully selected participants are invited to an Innovation Tournament™, where multiple ideas for reaching goals are generated, sorted, integrated, enriched, and improved through on-line sharing and an in-person facilitated workshop. Resulting ideas are synthesized into a strategic roadmap with specific milestones toward future goals.

The complete process allows a company to tackle large, complex sustainability goals that require deep involvement of manufacturing, supply chain, materials and product design, and other core functions of the enterprise. The internal team helps define the problem and identifies the current conditions and needs, while the external experts contribute knowledge of specific processes, conditions, and technologies. The result is new insight into ways to dramatically improve performance and build capabilities, delivering maximum ROI and lasting value.

Webinar On Applying Breakthrough Acceleration to Sustainability

Viridis Strategy Group describes how the Breakthrough Acceleration solution can help companies make progress on their most difficult sustainability challenges. Hear about how Viridis helped Procter & Gamble accelerate its renewable energy program, and find out if Breakthrough Acceleration is a good fit to help you effectively and efficiently generate new ideas and develop a customized strategy to tackle your toughest sustainability challenges. View the webinar.

Viridis White Paper: USING AN INNOVATION TOURNAMENT TO ACHIEVE RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS

This white paper presents detail on the Breakthrough Acceleration process that Viridis ran with P&G to uncover new solutions to reach their ambitious renewable energy goals. The report provides a much greater level detail than the video (above), especially around the process, the deliverables, and the ideas that were generated. Below is a brief excerpt.

The resulting project design represented a novel way to tackle operational environmental impact reductions. The process engaged world-class outside experts to work with P&G leaders and internal experts to generate, cull, and refine innovations through first an online platform and then an in-person, results-oriented workshop—where portfolios of solutions would be created for individual sites. The expertise in sustainability management best practices of Viridis, combined with the group’s experienced eye for “green innovation” potential, fostered a collaborative approach that would enable P&G to quickly and effectively identify gaps and opportunities, develop solutions, and build capabilities...

Is Breakthrough Acceleration Right For You?

Are you innovating fast enough to reach your sustainability goals and move your program forward? Can we help you? We invite you to take our short questionnaire, which helps to identify how Breakthrough Acceleration can be applied to the particular sustainability challenges your organization faces. (The questionnaire should take less than five minutes to complete.)

Knowledge@Wharton Publishes on the Breakthrough Acceleration Process

When CEO Bob McDonald announced a goal to reach 30% renewable energy in P&G's 180 manufacturing facilities world wide, the Product Supply team was left with a tough challenge in a field where they had little experience. This article describes how they used an Innovation Tournament to kick-start the process. Read the full article here.


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