SUSTAINABILITY COSNULTING

GROUP 3C
Ashirbani
Bhowmik
Banothu
Praveen

Bhaskar
Maheshwari
Dujon Sonkar

Ravitej
Vadhlamani
Vinay Shenoy

Sustainability Consulting
Holistic approach-from measuring and
mitigating the future forces that affect a
companys strategy, portfolio and
operations, to assessing the companys
impact on the environment and
communities it touches.
Sub-part of management consulting

Distinction

MANAGEMENT
CONSULTING

SUSTAINABLE
CONSULTING

Porters Five Forces

Threat of Entry High as lots of companies
from large firms have begun to expand
Power of Supplier Low could increase with
new legislation
Power of Buyer Low as shown by Walmart
losing 2-8% of Customers
Threat of Substitutes Low as only other
option would be to start internally
Rivalry among Competitors High from
Companies like Accenture, A. T. Kearney
and Blu Skye

INDUSTRY
POSITION
2 or 3
employees to
100s of
consultants
ClientsFortune 1000
Accentu
A.T.
companies
re
Kearney
Rivals
Blu
Skye

Accenture,
Deloitte, BCG,
PWC
InterfaceRAISE
,
Blu Skye
Sole Proprietors

VRIO Analysis
Value All Interface RAISE employees
and volunteers have worked with the the
company for years and have experience
Rare Only experienced leaders are put
on projects
Costly to imitate Takes a lot of time and
resources to train and educate
employees
Organized to capture value from the
resource- 3 main full time staff
responsible for all operations

VRIO Analysis
Value Experienced and dedicated
employees
Rare Leadership aligned to
sustainability movement
Imitability Ideas employed like
Biomimicry and Entropy
Organization 3 full time employees,
1 part time employee with group of
experts

RESOURCES, COMPETENCIES AND CAPABILITIES

RESOURCES
COMPETENCI
ES
CAPABILITIE
S

3 full time, 1 part time employee and

20 peer experts
Leadership, Culture and Application
Speeches, Workshops, Sustainability
Immersion, Mentoring, Current State
Assessment and Sustainability
Strategy

SWOT

STRENGTH- EXPERIENCE DUE TO

WEAKNESSTHREATSOPPORTUNITIESOTHER
LIMITED
FIRMS
DEVELOPING
MAN
LIKE
POWER
BLU
APPLICATION
IN
INTERFACE
ECONOMIES
AND
SKYE
SMALL
LIKE
AND
BRIC
SIZE
CI NATIONS

STRATEGY

Similar to Interface expanding in international

markets, InterfaceRAISE should also focus is
developing nations
Specifically India and China where economies are
robust but there are is hardly any sustainability
drives
With global pressure, both nations will have to
look at environmental aspects for their industries
giving rise to scope for sustainability consultants

CORPORATE STRATEGY

Enterprise still in its infancy

Still dependent on Interface Inc, for bulk of
its experts
Interface Inc targets still not achieved
Hence, as of now remain vertically
integrated
However, in future with expansion, it may
be feasible to become a standalone entity

CHIEF COMPETITORS

Blu Skye
Operates at similar level as InterfaceRAISE
Operates on similar principles as InterfaceRAISE
Won the contract from Walmart despite
Walmart actually approaching Interface Inc.,
first
Leveraged this relationship to win deals with
Hilton, Sony Pictures and Microsoft among
many more big corporates.