Mauritius: The Sustainable Operating System Initiative - Towards Business Sustainability and Resilience

In my article "THE NEED TO RETHINK ORGANIZATIONS" (Business Magazine 15-21 Jul 2020), I advocated the need for business leaders to rethink their Organizations, and what they ought to do to survive and to grow in today's economy disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, Organizations need to build their Resilience by being more effective and more productive, by being more Sustainable - the development of an Organization can and must be Sustainable. I moreover emphasized that 'without a framework to examine the functioning of the Organization as a whole in relation to the dynamic changes in their environment, and to the factors that influence people behavior (and how) within the System', there cannot be long-term and sustainable improvements. This framework can practically be realized by the adoption and deployment of The Sustainable Operating System Initiative (SOSI™), which, in effect, is a Strategic Positioning tool.

An Organization is a dynamic System made up of several inter-connected sub-systems. The Organization itself is part of a larger System (its local environment). And all such larger Systems are inter-related in the global eco-system. Hence, in order not to negatively impact the Environment and Society as a whole, Organizations must have an approach which sustainably integrates their sub-systems within the environments in which they operate; this approach need to be Holistic and Environment-centric. Organizations are thus, more than ever, expected to have on-board their Sustainability Initiatives (SI), in one form or another. In Mauritius, the larger Organizations are mostly Sustainability-conscious (to various degrees), and have their in-house (Sustainability/Go-Green) initiatives already. But in general, the smaller Organizations are yet to formally embark on their Sustainability journey, probably due to a lack of awareness and/or know-how, amongst others. But to many, the cost of such an initiative is the main deterrent, coupled with the (wrong) perception that tangible benefits will only be seen in the long-term. SOSI™, however, has a forthright functional and coherent approach towards Business Sustainability and Resilience, with rather quick ensuing results.

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