Linking our material issues to our Strategic Focus Areas and the capitals

Core strategic themes

The group has identified top imperatives that form our material focus areas for each core strategic theme. Key performance indicators have been set to track progress.

  Strategic focus
areas (SFAs)
    Strategic objectives   Material issues related to our
strategic objectives
Capitals  
      Achieve targeted compound growth in total shareholder returns over five years to September 2015.  
– Key growth initiatives
– Shareholder returns
 
– Capital allocation
– Cost management
 
      Build an organisation that adds value to employees as our success is based on inspired, aligned, empowered, results-driven, globally competitive, passionate people who create value through strategic innovation and continuous improvement.  
– Employee value model
– Leadership development
 
– Talent management
– Health and safety
 
      Drive market leadership through competitive differentiation by accelerating the evolution of our business model from pure distribution to the provision of flexible, value-adding, integrated customer solutions.  
– Customer value proposition
– Alignment with principals
– Operational excellence
 
– Customer relationships
– Innovation
– Technology-enabled solutions
 
      Develop products and services to capitalise on emerging sustainable business opportunities, realise cost savings through energy efficiency and other sustainable business practices, and enhance Barloworld’s reputation by leading in sustainable development.  
– Reducing our environmental footprint
– Responsible value chain
– Products and services
– Corporate social investment
 
– Stakeholder engagement
– Ethics and compliance
– Governance
   
   
   
 
      Enhance competitiveness, credibility, legitimacy and reputation in the eyes of all stakeholders by leading in broad-based empowerment and transformation.  
– Diversity

 
– Enterprise and supplier development
 
      Achieve top-quartile financial returns as measured against peer groups in each of our chosen business segments.  
– Financial value
drivers
– Financial returns
   
 
– Source of funding/structure
– Working capital
– Cash management