... contributed outstanding top-line business performance, profitable growth, savings, and/or created a distinct competitive edge. Winner: Mondelēz International Social Impact of the Year Award recognizes supply chain initiatives that have achieved a positive, quantifiable impact on society, local communities and/or ...
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... technologies and pure process design makes it possible for L’Oréal to save money and at the same time have beneficial impacts on the environment and social justice. François-Régis Le Tourneau detailed L’Oréal’s three-pronged approach to sustainability, emphasizing transportation, waste and responsible ...
... Pfizer or Nestlé for examples. We can arrest the degradation of natural resources – take Unilever, IKEA and Coca-Cola as examples. We can promote social justice and respect in work – consider Disney, HP and Nike as examples. And, we can do it in harmony with our basic responsibility to make money for ...
... running through their stories is a deep sense of the connectedness that supply chain brings to business. Many are keen to improve the environmental and social impacts of business on the world, but within the game of the profit-making enterprise. In short, most start life already as firm believers in the end-to-end ...
... willing to pay dearly to slow the pace of change. Winners and Losers The digital transformation of human society turns out to have plenty of negatives. Social media, for all its democratizing power as seen in the Arab Spring, is also Balkanizing and distorting with an echo-chamber effect that alienates. Automation ...
... will deliver net 500,000 new jobs to the economy. AI is, of course, fundamentally disrupting the nature of work. Roles are shifting to focus more on social-creative skills (which AI does not offer) and digital dexterity (the skills required to use and harness this fundamentally new class of tools). But ...
... a storyline in which the preceding “revolutions” are really incremental steps in a bigger sweep of history from a feudal, agricultural world to a socially fluid, information-driven world. And yet, the concept really is as big as it is meant to sound, if only because it may be the final chapter in the ...
... supply chain community for four straight years now and have witnessed a hefty, steady rise in the value of pure cost savings as a reason to invest in social and environmental responsibility (SER). In fact, having analysed the data from our 2014 CSCO survey in time series since 2011 we see that cost reduction ...
... apart. CEO Paul Polman has been clear and consistent about the intent to grow revenue, while decoupling environmental costs and creating a positive social impact. This forces supply chain leaders to constantly think big while working small. Ecolab: Led by a CEO (Doug Baker) with an extraordinary appreciation ...