Have you ever put off improving your level of fitness because you just didn’t have time – or you didn’t know what was achievable or where to start? The result was probably that you stayed exactly where you were and nothing changed.
Guess what? Your company’s resource efficiency journey is exactly the same.
Let’s stay with the fitness metaphor for a little longer.
Picture, if you will, all of the time you’ve spent ‘pumping iron’ – also known as lifting weights - at the gym. If you haven’t – pretend! During that time, maybe you focussed on your ‘gains’ – the additional muscle mass and power achieved by eating and training in a certain way. “Gains” - meaning increased strength and improved performance – are the goal.
Now apply this mentality to your business – instead, your gains are not muscle, they are resource efficiency improvements. (Stay with us here.)