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“ Just by changing the mindset , you realise that the sorts of business transformation projects we might do can actually have a really positive sustainability benefit alongside a really positive business benefit ”
— James Robey , Global CSO , Capgemini
UK business ; we now have one at group level too . But that sustainability board was comprised of the senior executives and the numerous CEOs , because of the way the business is structured . This has been really important in both the governance of the programme , but also to the drive to really push change through the organisation . Because ultimately at the end of the day , sustainability is a business change programme .”
Sustainability continues to affect change in virtually every aspect of business and supply chain and construction are no exceptions . “ We look at the end-to-end responsibility surrounding sustainability . We have sustainability supply chain experts in the team and although I don ’ t have sustainable construction people , we work very closely with our corporate real estate team on office refurbishment and office efficiency . They ’ re a really strong centre of excellence within that team in terms of driving down energy use and increasing efficiency .”
Travel was identified as the area in which the biggest single impact for sustainability could be initiated . Robey and his team wanted to look at travel
AUGUST 2019