Evaluating employee skills and capabilities and developing new processes to achieve KPC’s business improvement priorities

The Stage 1 business improvement plan was integrated into the company's overall business strategy and included measurable performance indicators, which identify the contribution of innovation to the bottom line and achievement of key business objectives. Ultimately, KPC's innovation strategy contributed to KPC's long-term competitiveness, sustainability and profitability. The outcomes of Stage 1 CISP were that the scope of the innovation strategy was significantly broad and included initiatives in the key business areas of:

- Operational efficiency
- Innovation resource planning and people development
- Sustainability (Environment)
- Feedlot/livestock
- Supply chain innovation (including areas such as eating quality; information management; supply chain alignment; through chain assurance)
- Marketing/product innovation - including integration between CISP and Global Marketing Agreement programs as appropriate (separate contractual arrangements are in place for the Global Marketing Agreements)

During the three-year period, a range of current and new strategy development and implementation activities were planned including (but were not limited to):

- Documentation of key objectives and innovation initiatives in each of the above key business areas
- Quantifiable innovation performance targets in each of the key business areas, including the development of baselines and measurement systems to monitor progress against planned objectives
- Development of an innovation skills and resources plan to build KPC's capability to effectively implement the innovation strategies
-Initiatives to support the cultural change required across the business to deliver against corporate innovation objectives