LSC/UoS: Building a Sustainable Organisation & Competitive Edge

This report delves into the concept of sustainability and its profound impact on achieving long-term competitive advantages for organizations, using Sainsbury's as a case study. It explores the attributes and capabilities essential for navigating complex and rapidly changing business environments, emphasizing the importance of organizational culture, leadership performance, strategic unity, and innovation. The analysis highlights how these factors contribute to enhanced profitability, customer loyalty, and employee retention, ultimately fostering a sustainable and competitive business model. The report concludes by reinforcing the significance of addressing challenges and complexities within an organization to achieve lasting success and sustainability in the marketplace, particularly through employee and customer satisfaction.

Building A Sustainable
Organisation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Task A..............................................................................................................................................1
Critically discuss the concept of sustainability and its impact on the long-term competitive
advantages for organisations. .....................................................................................................1
Task B..............................................................................................................................................2
Critically discuss attributes and capabilities that are necessary for business success in a
complex and changing environment. ..........................................................................................2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Business organization means group of individual's that is developed upon various kinds
of products and services that is sold within market. These organizations leads towards creating
various opportunities for development of individual's lifestyle. The product and services makes
competitive edge achieved with sustainable growth of an organization. The selected organization
for this report is Sainsbury which is an retail supermarket branch established in the year 1869
and has been operating in London, UK. Further, report discuss about sustainability and
competitive edge. The second part discuss about complexity and changing business environment.
MAIN BODY
Task A
Critically discuss the concept of sustainability and its impact on the long-term competitive
advantages for organisations.
Sustainability approach the ones elements that is used for knowledge approximately
distinctive views which leads toward imparting balance inside commercial enterprise and its
operations. Sustainability relates with elements like leadership, management, advertising and
competitiveness(Meaki, 2019). These are essential factors that leads towards development of
business organizations. Sainsbury is an famous store and has used those additives to advantage
long time sustainability as consistent with situations current inside precise marketplace. Leaders
and bosses of Sainsbury has furnished diverse techniques that has helped Sainsbury in gaining
aggressive facet. Sustainability makes aggressive gain executed for Sainsbury with the aid of
using growing awareness over sales, income margins, sales generation, purchaser enchantment
and personnel retention. Further, those function of sustainable aggressive gain is mentioned as
follows:
 Profit and sales generation: This is one of the maximum essential attitude that makes
organisation gain long-time period competitiveness with the aid of using growing
emblem cost of an organisation. Sainsbury is capable of generate excessive income and
sales which has helped it shooting marketplace stocks which makes Sainsbury extra
robust inside the marketplace of UK.
 Customer balance: It is some other essential elements that has made improvement of
sustainability inside an organisation. This contributes toward attracting purchaser making
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organisation like Sainsbury shape huge clients base inside marketplace of UK. Sainsbury
has attained aggressive sustainability with the aid of using growing dependable clients
that makes Sainsbury live beforehand of its competitors.
 Market tendencies: Market is essential a part of aggressive facet main toward
sustainable improvement inside an organisation with long-time period motive(López and
et. al., 2019). These tendencies has helped Sainsbury in analysing diverse views this is
associated with marketplace like desires and call for which organisation gain dreams and
targets with sustainability in marketplace.
 Employees retention: This is an essential component which make personnel live inside
an organisation and will increase aggressive mind-set with the aid of using improving
inner running environment. Sainsbury is capable of hold its enjoy personnel which made
its selection making robust and powerful which made sustainability evolved inside
organisation.
Task B
Critically discuss attributes and capabilities that are necessary for business success in a complex
and changing environment.
The complicated and converting commercial enterprise surroundings of contemporary-
day global has made businesses address numerous components which makes business enterprise
examine those complexities and convey extrade inside their commercial enterprise surroundings.
In order to address complexities commercial enterprise businesses like Sainsbury has labored
upon numerous components which might be associated with selection making and strategic
management(Howe, 2021). Sainsbury has labored upon organizational abilities like culture,
management and innovation which has been mentioned as follows:
 Organizational culture: This is an crucial a part of commercial enterprise surroundings
which makes running circumstance inside business enterprise advanced via way of means
of shaping businesses identification inside specific marketplace. It leads closer to
collaboration and selling of teamwork with communication. Sainsbury is capable of
paintings over attributes which might be crucial for expertise complexity brought on
inside its running. Sainsbury has evolved variety inside personnel which makes
coordination and collaboration increased.
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 Leadership performance: This is every other crucial angle this is pertains to leaders of
an business enterprise. Leaders of Sainsbury has added modern packages which makes
personnel stimulated closer to dreams and goals accomplishment. It makes complexity of
commercial enterprise operations eliminated which permits productiveness more
desirable of personnel closer to paintings. Leaders ought to be of effective thoughts set
making complicated troubles solved concerning boom of Sainsbury.
 Strategic unity: This is every other crucial angle which makes business enterprise
address complicated commercial enterprise operations. Through the idea managers of
Sainsbury has evolved numerous techniques concerning advertising, promoting and
clients preferences. Sainsbury is capable of remedy complicated hassle of product
advertising and deliver chain method with the assist of those techniques.
 Innovation: This is maximum crucial element that's chargeable for boom and fulfilment
of an business enterprise. It makes business enterprise address numerous components that
consists of product improvement and generation for fixing complicated troubles solved
present inside an business enterprise. Sainsbury is capable of remedy on line shipping
troubles and queries with the enables of innovation.
Sainsbury has been growing its services and products via way of means of focusing upon
clients wishes and needs which has helped it in achieving sustainability. Through Sainsbury has
confronted numerous complicated troubles with its on line shipping device and clients detection
which has been solved with the assist of innovation in its education and improvement packages
that makes business enterprise its personnel privy to new traits of marketplace(Fenton and
Timperley, 2019). Further, Sainsbury has made its selection making greater bendy via way of
means of related to personnel inside it. This has made Sainsbury apprehend approximately its
troubles confronted via way of means of personnel. Through fixing troubles of personnel and
clients Sainsbury is capable of obtain sustainability inside marketplace as higher outcomes have
been visible because of worker and clients satisfaction.
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CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it has been marked out that business organizations are those
organization which is used in order to sell products and services which has been used by an
organization. The above evaluation relates with sustainability and long term competitive
advantage which is attained by an organization within particular market. In this concept of
sustainability is covered with challenges and complexity existing within an organization.
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