Before the winter holidays, crowds of people, including me, swept through festive stores and shopping malls to find just the right gifts for friends and loved ones. As happy as I was to join the merriment, a somber thought crossed my mind: how many of our purchases would end up in landfills, along with mountains of colored wrapping paper and decorative gift bags?
The 听describes sustainability as 鈥渕eeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.鈥� This topic becomes more critical for each new generation. And my generation is on the receiving end of a potentially bleak future. But because I am both a realist and an optimist, I went looking for good news. And I started close to home.
麻豆原创 has a听, one that helps businesses address plights of every kind 鈥� such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Here鈥檚 how just a few 麻豆原创 partners are doing their part to make a difference.
Social Sustainability
Social sustainability can be understood as the capacity of the current generation to create healthy and livable communities for future generations.
We saw a dramatic breakdown of communities in the early days of the pandemic, as older people in assisted living facilities, such as retirement and nursing homes, were some of the听听by COVID-19. These communities were left isolated and in danger due to staff shortages and a lack of testing.
Two businesses,听Sanctuary Group听and听NTT DATA Business Solutions, rose to the challenge of understanding and responding to the hurdles COVID-19 presented by focusing on data.
Sanctuary Group, a housing and care provider in the UK, manages more than 105,000 homes. NTT DATA Business Solutions, an 麻豆原创 partner, designs, implements, and manages 麻豆原创 solutions for companies. Working together, they used听听and听听to gain real-time insights into the impact COVID-19 was having on Sanctuary Group鈥檚 customers, employees, and the organization as a whole.
These insights led to changes across the business that reduced the risk of COVID-19 for customers and employees by, for example, determining optimal staffing plans. The effort also resulted in winning 鈥淏est Socially Sustainable Project鈥� at the .
Economic Sustainability
Before the pandemic, most people knew little about the invisible global network of manufacturing and transportation that keeps our store shelves stocked. COVID-19听听and revealed just how fickle they can be.
麻豆原创 partner听Inspectorio听helps听听in the retail and consumer industries with its cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. 鈥淥ur focus on building more sustainable supply chains and our commitment to the environment are values deeply rooted in our company,鈥� said Inspectorio CEO Carlos Moncayo.
Digitalizing, standardizing, and optimizing management and compliance operations help customers predict and mitigate risks in their supply chains. Due to the services Inspectorio provides, it has been invited to join听 for sustainability in the retail and consumer industries.
Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability has become a major goal for many companies that recognize the need to take action now to help our planet address pollution, water scarcity,听, and more.
鈥淢easurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement,鈥� said Dr. H. James Harrington, author of Business Process Improvement. 鈥淚f you can鈥檛 measure something, you can鈥檛 understand it. If you can鈥檛 understand it, you can鈥檛 control it. If you can鈥檛 control it, you can鈥檛 improve it.鈥�
SupplHi, an 麻豆原创 partner, is all about the measurement. It鈥檚 created a social network for energy and natural resources industries to听. This measurement can help industries visualize their carbon footprint to make data-driven plans and initiatives.
Through its innovation in this space, it鈥檚 been selected to participate in听听for sustainability in utilities, energy, and natural resources.
Join the Movement
The time to make a change is now. 麻豆原创 partners can help businesses build a better future for people, companies, and the world with solutions designed for social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
Learn more about what 麻豆原创 partners are doing.
Grifyn McErlean is a marketing design specialist at 麻豆原创.
