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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Now Hiring on Purpose: Sustainable Innovation Technologist - Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9112 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

0:11.8

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

0:15.8

The best run business is Run SAP.

0:18.4

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

0:22.1

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's

0:26.9

businesses in new directions. Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham. Welcome, welcome, welcome. If you want to run

0:33.2

with the game changers, you're in the right place, and that's because this is where the best run.

0:38.6

Okay, let's see what the buzz on the street is. I did a little research on our topic today,

0:43.3

and I found a website on highest paying careers in sustainability. I thought that was an

0:49.1

interesting approach, and I just used a keyword there. Let me read you just a couple of little

0:53.5

snippets that'll get your

0:54.7

attention from this site. Chief Sustainability Executives, the new environmental chiefs wield

1:02.8

extraordinary power. All I can say is, wow, does your company have one? Do you want one? Do you need one? Do you

1:09.6

want to be one? Well, let's look at

1:11.2

why this is important. Today, more employees, more consumers, more stockholders, whichever category

1:17.5

or categories you fall in, expect the companies they work for, the companies they buy from,

1:22.9

and the companies they invest in, and I should say we, to be purpose driven. So if your company isn't there yet,

1:29.3

or if you're just bandying around the word, we're a purpose-driven company, and you put it on your

1:33.5

website, and you put it in your marketing materials, and you put it on social media, but you're not

1:37.4

doing it, you're not living it, well, you need to get on board. So we have an idea for you.

1:42.8

How about sustainability? It's a great way to be

1:46.0

purpose driven and get everybody's attention and put the pedal to the middle. Put sustainability at the

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