There is growing evidence that “sustainability” is no longer just optional. Leading companies—such as Unilever, SAP, Nestlé, P&G and Kraft—have announced that they are changing their business models to make the most of a changing business landscape. And that includes using resources more efficiently and sustainably. Many “consumer goods companies” are active here. But all their suppliers (B2B) will also be impacted.
What are the challenges involved in becoming more sustainable? What is the role of innovation? How does a company make it pay off for everyone?
Senior & Top Management Level
Briefing Workshop on Sustainability/Triple Bottom Line for Executives
This workshop provides the opportunity to step out of your daily business and think about and plan how to move your organization toward more sustainable business. Issues addressed are:
What is the compelling evidence that you need to change toward sustainable business practices to be competitive, and/or as part of your risk management?
What is the compelling evidence for moving to triple bottom line reporting?
Where can we make incremental changes and where do we need to make more fundamental changes?
Taking time to plan the change from a projects and process point of view but also getting people on board and changing “business-as-usual” attitudes
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Sustainability as a Major Source of Innovation: Eco-Innovation
There is a tremendous opportunity to make a competitive leap and create value through sustainability and your organization has recognized this. But how are you going to transform into a “sustainable” company? You can play catch-up with your competitors but the biggest value will likely be rewarded to those who innovate fundamentally toward sustainability.
- How can you (re)start innovation in your organization, or in your part of the organization?
- How can you powerfully use outside knowledge and capability through open innovation?
- How can you ensure that you are creating and capturing value from eco-innovations?
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Mid-Career Management Level
Managing the Innovation Process in Your Team, Department or Division
Where do you begin and how do you get your people to innovate? How can your collaborate outside your team? How to innovate to create high value and competitive advantage for your company?
This workshop is available as a Custom-Made Solution only. MCE will adapt the structure and content to your organization's specific needs. Please click here for more information, or call us on: +32 (0)2 543 2400.
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Creativity to Implement Your Innovation Strategy
How do you come up with new and creative ideas? How do you overcome the blockers to the creative process? How can you focus creativity on a particular problem? How do you manage all the ideas once they start flowing?
This workshop is available as a Custom-Made Solution only. MCE will adapt the structure and content to your organization's specific needs. Click here for more information, or call us on: +32 (0)2 543 21 20.
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Corporate Social Responsibility - The Greening of SCM
CSR/ Sustainability is a broad and hot issue today in business and society. How do you handle customer and client requests for specific answers to issues and concerns about global climate awareness? Read more
Planning, Measuring and Managing Sustainability
Sustainability is definitely on C-level agendas now. The days of people talking about it, but not implementing it, are over. It is now clear that your customers will favour suppliers who take sustainability seriously.
Implementing a sustainability strategy requires setting up metrics and performance management systems to monitor the internal and external data. This workshop addresses these issues.
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