Describe your organization’s KEY STRATEGIC CHALLENGES.

Within your response, include answers to the following questions:

Area P.2b. Strategic Challenges

What are your KEY business, operational, and human resource STRATEGIC CHALLENGES?

What are your KEY STRATEGIC CHALLENGES associated with ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY?

Notes:

N2. STRATEGIC CHALLENGES (P.2b) might include rapid technological change, disruptive technologies that rapidly revolutionize or make obsolete existing PROCESSES or products, reduced CYCLE TIMES for product introduction, industry volatility, declining market share, changing marketplace, mergers and acquisitions, global marketing and competition, CUSTOMER retention, changing or emerging CUSTOMER or regulatory requirements, employee retention, an aging workforce, and VALUE chain INTEGRATION.

For additional description of this Area, see P.2 Organizational Challenges description.

2005 Criteria Items: 1.1 - 1.2 - 2.1 - 2.2 - 3.1 - 3.2 - 4.1 - 4.2 - 5.1 - 5.2 - 5.3 - 6.1 - 6.2 - 7.1 - 7.2 - 7.3 - 7.4 - 7.5 - 7.6 - P.1 - P.2

Areas: 1.1a-1.1b-1.2a-1.2b-1.2c-2.1a-2.1b-2.2a-2.2b-3.1a-3.2a-3.2b-4.1a-4.1b-4.2a-4.2b-4.2c-5.1a-5.1b-5.1c-5.2a-5.2b-5.3a-5.3b-6.1a-6.2a-6.2b-7.1a-7.2a-7.3a-7.4a-7.5a-7.6a-P.1a-P.1b-P.2a-P.2b-P.2c