CASE STUDY: MASCO

Creating a strategy across 20 business units

GreenOrder worked with Masco, a leading manufacturer of home improvement and building products, to create a comprehensive strategy for a decentralized organization.

MASCO'S Challenge
Masco retained GreenOrder to:

  • Develop a cohesive sustainability strategy that stems from the organization's corporate leadership but is implemented by and supported throughout the business units
  • Craft an implementation plan to launch the sustainability strategy and cascade it throughout the organization
  • Create tools and processes to support product innovation, market intelligence, and routine operations
  • Devise a go-to-market strategy and assess whether an internal green brand is appropriate

GreenOrder's Approach
Key components of GreenOrder's work included:

  • In-depth interviews and employee survey to gauge the attitudes of Masco's staff towards sustainability
  • Competitive analysis by product platform, resulting in recommendations for prioritization of green product development specific to each product platform
  • Cross-function and cross-business unit workshops to inform strategy development
  • Priority and goal right-sizing and action prioritization by core functional area
  • In-depth scenario analysis of several different green branding paths and development of green messaging guidelines
  • Implementation playbook to translate enterprise-level strategy to business units
  • Performance framework in the form of a pan-Masco scorecard for green products

Results
Through our work, Masco:

  • Launched its first enterprise-wide strategy and established pathways for collaboration across business units
  • Developed its first set of environmental goals, with criteria and immediate targets for green product sales
  • Created the position of VP of Sustainability

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