Now Hiring on Purpose: Sustainable Innovation Technologist - Part 2

08/08/18 • 55 min

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

The buzz: “Chief sustainability executives the new environmental chiefs...wield extraordinary power” (www.sustainabilitydegrees.com). More employees, consumers and stockholders expect the companies they work for, buy from and invest in to be purpose-driven. How to get on board? Hire a Sustainable Innovation Technologist to develop teams, solutions and procedures to grow efficiency, employee retention, global impact and profits, all while reducing costs. Who knew purpose could be so good? The experts speak. Dr. John Frey, HPE: “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other” (Mother Teresa). Rob Thiele, OpenText: “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge” (Plato). Jim Sullivan, SAP: “Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation” (Thomas Friedman). Join us for Now Hiring on Purpose: Sustainable Innovation Technologist – Part 2.

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Circular Economy: Radical and Unproven or Saving the Planet? - Part 2

The buzz: “We will design products differently if we knew that those products were going to come back to us as manufacturers and we could extract value from them and create new products from them” (Teresa Domenech). The last 150 years of industrial evolution have been dominated by a one-way Linear Economy model of production and consumption. Goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used, then discarded or incinerated as waste. How to get past this unsustainable practice? Welcome to the circular economy model, which maintains products, extends their service life, and repurposes one product’s waste to maintain another – reuse, repair, remanufacture. Is your company on board yet? The experts speak. Christopher Koch, SAP: “Say something once, why say it again?” (David Byrne “Psycho Killer” lyrics). Will Ritzrau, SAP: “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all” (Ernest Shackleton). Join us for Circular Economy: Radical and Unproven or Saving the Planet? – Part 2.

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Social Sellers Playbook: Making It Count - Part 2

The buzz: “There are loads of studies which show that marketers struggle with measuring ROI from social media” (David Moth). If you’re the designated social selling results “bean counter” for your company, the standardization of digital performance metrics will give you relief. How? You’ll be able to measure the business impact of all digital selling performance across the organization and provide timely feedback to reinforce what’s working vs what can be improved or eliminated. The experts speak. Mark Hunter, The Sales Hunter: “You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something” (Zig Ziglar). Scott Santucci, Social Enablement Society: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” Sir (Winston Churchill). Marco Cai, SAP: “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things (Einstein). Join us for Social Sellers’ Playbook: Making It Count – Part 2.