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Coro Strandberg

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Strandberg Consulting

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From CSR to Social Purpose in the New ‘Roaring Twenties’
From CSR to Social Purpose in the New ‘Roaring Twenties’

Organizational Change / In the 1920s, people didn’t pay attention to the problems brought on by market excess — and that decade begat the Great Depression. Today, truly modern companies are showing the way to a different kind of decade. - 4 years ago

Beyond CSR: Next-Generation Standards for Shaping Your Business for Good
Beyond CSR: Next-Generation Standards for Shaping Your Business for Good

Organizational Change / By equipping yourself and your organization to understand the changing landscape, and setting a strategic course, you can position your company, customers, shareholders, industry and communities to have a more secure, resilient and thriving future. - 4 years ago

Chicken and Egg: Business Must Embrace the Need for Sustainability Know-How
Chicken and Egg: Business Must Embrace the Need for Sustainability Know-How

Business Case / Professionals who received their education over 10 years ago — and who haven’t upgraded to be able to understand the implications and complexity of sustainability trends, risks and opportunities — may be putting their organizations at risk. - 4 years ago

Sustainability Expectations Rising in the Construction Industry: Toolkit Can Help
Sustainability Expectations Rising in the Construction Industry: Toolkit Can Help

Organizational Change / With rising demands from multiple stakeholders to reduce construction’s environmental impact and accelerate its social benefits, a guide for the sector provides a handy checklist for construction companies to keep up with the times. - 4 years ago

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Higher Education Needs a Higher Bar to Equip Us for a Flourishing Future
Higher Education Needs a Higher Bar to Equip Us for a Flourishing Future

The Next Economy / Our consumption and production systems will soon need re-engineering, so that all nine billion of us can live well within our planetary boundaries. Are higher education institutions doing enough to equip our professionals for these roles? - 4 years ago

Finally! Companies Using the SDGs to Set Their North Star
Finally! Companies Using the SDGs to Set Their North Star

Organizational Change / These companies will not only make a social difference — they will become an engine for good, attracting the partners, resources and revenues to put their businesses on a profitable path and scaling their potential for impact. A classic win-win, and a high-water mark for purpose. - 4 years ago

11 Criteria for Defining, Refining Your Company’s Social Purpose Statement
11 Criteria for Defining, Refining Your Company’s Social Purpose Statement

Organizational Change / When a statement is too generic, it can be challenging for employees to connect to it and for the entire organization to be galvanized by that social purpose. - 5 years ago

Future Shock: Is Higher Education Ready for the Impact?
Future Shock: Is Higher Education Ready for the Impact?

Organizational Change / Industries, companies and governments are retooling for the future, driven by the sustainability imperatives of climate change; resource, food and water scarcity; social polarization and rising income inequality. Universities and colleges are no exception. The future will be won by organizations that were proactive, not those that defended the status quo. As with other industries, the post-secondary sector is undergoing a transition as it explores its reason for existence. Does it equip students and professionals for future roles? Yes. Does it also equip its administrators to contribute their expertise, resources, assets and investments to contribute to societal outcomes? Slowly, but surely. - 5 years ago

Partnering for Good: Impacts from a Transformational 10-Year Partnership
Partnering for Good: Impacts from a Transformational 10-Year Partnership

Collaboration / “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford Environmental and social issues are increasingly affecting the viability of business — and the communities and environments in which they operate. A proven way to address these issues is through partnerships in which businesses and non-profits collaborate for mutual benefit and create solutions to societal challenges. Faced with these sizable issues, it can be hard to know where to start — and to determine where the greatest value lies. Taking a page from lean innovation, start with a pilot project, to test and scale what works. - 5 years ago

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About the Clout: Pro-Sustainability Businesses Lobby For Greater Good
About the Clout: Pro-Sustainability Businesses Lobby For Greater Good

Walking the Talk / Increasingly, businesses are using their clout to influence governments to advance a fair, inclusive and sustainable society and position their business for success. They recognize that government leadership is essential to develop progressive economic, social and environmental public policy to realize a future in which business and society can prosper. - 6 years ago

Corporate Sustainability Practitioners: Roles Have Changed — Has Your Job Description?
Corporate Sustainability Practitioners: Roles Have Changed — Has Your Job Description?

Leadership / “If life were easy, it wouldn’t be difficult.” — Kermit the Frog As a sustainability professional, I am drawn to this Muppet wisdom. Over the many years I’ve worked in the field as an advisor and strategist, I’ve witnessed a slow but steady awakening on the part of organizations to the real challenges of long-term sustainability. It takes intention, commitment – and pivots. - 6 years ago

Going Beyond Less Bad: Redefining Products, Brands for Positive Impact
Going Beyond Less Bad: Redefining Products, Brands for Positive Impact

Organizational Change / “We want all of our three billion products we sell every year to be well on the path to being truly sustainable by 2025.” - 6 years ago

Climate Change and the Third Way: Adapt, Mitigate or Transform?
Climate Change and the Third Way: Adapt, Mitigate or Transform?

Business Case / Grim climate change reality: The seas are rising. Terrifying hurricanes regularly raze vast, inhabited areas. - 6 years ago

It’s All About the Chain, Gang: Procurement the Link to Sustainable Supply Chains
It’s All About the Chain, Gang: Procurement the Link to Sustainable Supply Chains

Supply Chain / We are transitioning to a low-carbon, circular and inclusive economy. The latest arrival to the party is the procurement department — and none too soon, given the mammoth challenge ahead to make global supply chains sustainable and ethical. If you’re looking to fill your procurement cart with insights on tackling the challenges, read on for information about two tools and a city with a supply chain vision. - 6 years ago

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Institutions of Even Higher Learning: Universities Planting Seeds for Social Innovation
Institutions of Even Higher Learning: Universities Planting Seeds for Social Innovation

Organizational Change / We live in a volatile, uncertain and complex world. With threats of climate change, rising income inequality, social unrest, resource scarcity and ecological degradation predicted to affect society’s progress, leaders and the institutions they run must play new roles to realize a sustainable future. Breakthrough innovation is essential, requiring paradigm shifts and pivots in how we operate and function as a society. - 6 years ago

Still Talking About CSR? How to Accelerate Your Sustainability Visions for the Future
Still Talking About CSR? How to Accelerate Your Sustainability Visions for the Future

Organizational Change / If you haven’t updated your sustainability or corporate social responsibility approach in the last few years, you are putting your company at risk. - 6 years ago

From Commitment to Action: Progressing Past the CSR Plateau
From Commitment to Action: Progressing Past the CSR Plateau

Walking the Talk / Corporate social responsibility is stuck. When it emerged on the scene 20 years ago, businesses and other stakeholders had high expectations for what a focus on CSR could deliver. But the reality is that neither business nor society are on track to enable nine billion people to live well within the boundaries of the planet by 2050 - let alone 2030. There’s a lot at stake: Unless business collectively steps up to contribute substantively to embracing and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, many business models will be at risk. - 6 years ago

The Right Way – and Wrong Way – to Embrace Purpose as the New Way to Do Business
The Right Way – and Wrong Way – to Embrace Purpose as the New Way to Do Business

Organizational Change / Today’s employees want more from their employer than a paycheque. They crave a sense of pride and fulfillment and want to work for a company whose values match their own. A recent UK report found that companies with a social mission have a significant competitive advantage when attracting and retaining employees. - 7 years ago

Governance and Sustainability: The New Normal
Governance and Sustainability: The New Normal

Organizational Change / Wild fires, flooding, distracted driving and emotional wellness concerns cost Canadians billions of dollars in 2016. - 7 years ago

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The Circular Economy in Action: HP Leading the Way
The Circular Economy in Action: HP Leading the Way

Product, Service & Design Innovation / More than two million people in six countries subscribe to HP’s “Instant Ink.” When a customer is running low on ink, an Internet-connected printer notifies HP and a replacement cartridge is automatically delivered, with a return envelope for the used cartridges, which HP recycles. Compared with conventional business models, printers using this service generate up to 67 percent less materials consumption per printed page. - 7 years ago