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Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond

GreenBiz

Companies demonstrated the depth of their commitment and a certain financial resilience by shifting production lines to manufacture hand sanitizer and masks or forgoing government aid to demonstrate social solidarity. Brands have reimagined design and distribution of products in a context of lower sales volumes and digital acceleration.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. They can have a profound positive impact across economic, social and environmental value creation.

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Boosting your ESG performance reporting

Sustainability Matters

On the other hand, ESG is a way to quantifiably measure a company’s impact on society and the environment, using metrics that deliver long-term stakeholder value. In a manufacturing business, measuring ESG standards comes down to tracking internal and external environmental, social and corporate governance standards.

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A $500 Billion+ Market Opportunity for Real Impact: Three Ways Corporations Can Engage in Social Procurement

James Militzer

They are incorporating it into their procurement practices in three key ways: Direct Spend: This corporate spending involves sourcing both commodities for use in manufacturing new products, and manufactured goods to be sold to consumers. And over 50% see social procurement as a pathway to achieve larger company-wide ESG targets. .

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Sofidel: Building a Better Future

3BL Media

Sofidel pursues the promotion of the culture of health (from production environments to the hygienic-sanitary characteristics of its products up to their distribution) as one of the basic elements of its value creation process and as a factor in people's development. Quality Education. Act For the Climate. Goal Partnership.

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Assessing Last-Mile Distributors’ Business Performance and Impact: Using a Diagnostic Tool to Reveal Key Areas of Strength and Improvement

James Militzer

The tool is segmented along three axes that are key to driving value-creation and impact: Do you have a holistic value proposition? The second axis that’s key to value-creation and impact is the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery model, which can be assessed via a range of KPIs. Are you equipped to grow?

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Where the ‘New Formal’ is the New Normal: Lessons on Innovation from India’s Artisan Economy

James Militzer

Unlike modern manufacturing approaches that are concentrated in a few geographies, the artisan economy has an all-pervasive reach, thereby making it India’s second largest source of employment and livelihood after agriculture. This sector is a primarily rural, informal and creativity-led landscape.