Product Stewardship Strategy

In 2009, we committed to developing a strategy that reflects our commitment to product stewardship.

We have made the following progress to date:

• Identified a Senior Management Team member to champion the issue of product stewardship
• Developed a plan for advancing a product stewardship strategy within the company
• Piloted changes to our new product development process to more fully integrate product stewardship thinking into each phase
• Drafted a product stewardship policy

While we didn't accomplish everything we had hoped to in 2009, we have made significant progress and will continue to move our strategy forward in 2010. Our plans in 2010 include finalizing the integration of product stewardship into our product development process, incorporating product stewardship into other company decision making processes, enhancing employee understanding of product stewardship, and finalizing a policy that outlines our expectations and commitment.