**5. Conclusions and perspectives**

Analyzing the common ground of the excellence models (EFQM) or sustainability, one may notice that for both approaches the companies must:

• Set objectives considering the fundamental concepts that the company has adopted and internalized in the company's culture


Considering a company that adopted both excellence and sustainability concepts and codefined the company's values starting from these fundamentals, one may propose the structure of the company's management system looking similar to the Greek temple, as presented in **Figure 3**.

The foundation to build a surviving business may embed the fundamental concepts of excellence and sustainability, the pillars for maintaining the business in the global competition should arise from the two models, merging the enablers and the results of excellence with the criteria to assess sustainability, and finally, the company assesses and reports regularly the KPI and the other metrics in order to better comply with the values, to differentiate among competitors, and to better serve the stakeholders.

**Figure 3.** *Company structure.*
