Presentation looking at trends in corporate responsibility and business sustainability in 2014 and beyond

1. Eleven
Reasons
to
be
op.mis.c
about
sustainability
(climate
change
notwithstanding)
Toby
Webb,
Founder,
Ethical
Corpora.on
and
Stakeholder
Intelligence.
Lecturer,
Corporate
Responsibility,
Birkbeck,
University
of
London
Trends
and
Communica/ons
Briefing,
Stockholm,
February
2014
Tobias.Webb@stakeholderintel.com
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link

2. 1)
The
scale
of
the
challenges
we
face
are
increasingly
accepted

3. 2)
Governance
is
catching
up,
faster
than
before

4. 3)
Companies
are
ge?ng
up
to
speed
on
solu@ons,
much
faster,
and
taking
swiBer
ac@on.
Management
systems
where
possible,
are
converging

5. 4)
Collabora@on,
whilst
over
used
as
a
word,
is
in
places
making
a
real
difference

6. 5)
ICT,
soBware
and
social
media
technology
is
adap@ng
for
the
beIer,
much
faster
than
many
might
have
predicted

7. 6)
We're
realising
we
can’t
shop
ourselves
out
of
trouble

8. 7)
Emerging
markets,
whilst
vola@le,
show
in
research
they
both
recognise
the
challenges
and
have
op@mism
many
can
be
tackled

9. 8)
Business
models
are
star@ng
to
evolve,
and
that
is
accelera@ng

11. 9)
The
idea
of
global
consistency
in
companies
is
no
longer
a
wacky
idea,
but
has
a
long
way
to
go

12. 10)
Examples
and
case
studies
of
sustained
corporate
success
are
becoming
longer
las@ng
and
more
credible
and
business-­‐case
oriented

13. 11)
The
media
and
financial
world,
though
laggards,
are
grasping
the
issues
and
making
faster
changes
which
will
only
accelerate

18. Thank you!