Podcast

• Latest market highlights: the corporate sustainability report frenzy and the u-turn on CSDDD - is this even a bad thing?
• Upskilling your procurement team, including: 

• How to embed sustainability into procurement's BAU
• The tools and training to enable the procurement team
• The incentives to put on the table

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• Mission build fundamentals
• How to tailor your mission across a global market
• The big tech innovations to watch out for
• The benefits of building a meaningful mission

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• Prioritise data sets and manage against targets
• Solve for digitisation, granularity, flexibility, and usability in your infrastructure build
• Streamline interactions with other systems and organisations
• Establish optimal relationships with tech teams and third-party providers

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• What’s happening today: Mass surveying, “one platform rules them all” and an unrealistic push for “universal primary data”.
• Where we want to get to: data you can actually use.
• How to get there:  supplier contracts, blended procurement models, strategic upskilling, secure supplier data exchange (PACT)
• Key learnings from the transition

• Regenerative agriculture: what exactly regenerative agriculture means, how to fund it and how to implement it
• Optimising for supplier engagement and primary data use
• How far corporate influence goes when it comes to sustainability regulations, frameworks and standards

• Who's here (and who's not)
• What everyone is thinking, but not saying
• Where the real progress was made
• Reasons for optimism

• Primary vs secondary data collection strategies
• What primary and secondary data is
• Why we believe the "hybrid approach" is most effective
• How to implement a hybrid approach at scale

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• Team design: Create a clear strategy and vision, identify the optimal structure and organisational set-up for your team and understand where to resource and unlock budget.

• ‍Roles and responsibilities: Define the different roles and responsibilities needed, identify the skills and experience required for each role, find and recruit the best talent.

• We cover how to generate value from better consumer engagement around sustainability. We break this into two pieces:
• Where to play: how to think about market segmentation and how to size the market opportunity.
• How to play: the strategies and approaches that work to effectively engage and generate value.

• How to build a business case for sustainability change in your organisation.
• The use of carbon pricing as a tool to prioritise business cases and align stakeholders.
• Effective carbon pricing strategies, offering up a few shortcuts and insights to help sustainability professionals on this journey.

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• Optimal internal budget allocation to drive productivity
• Maximising External Spend: flagging the key watch-outs and learnings when prioritising strategic investments
• Unlocking project spend for scale-ups
• Influencing internal budget

• Understanding your responsibilities as a CSO
• How to interface with the Board and CEO
• CSO Superpowers for Success
• How you can expect your role as a CSO to evolve

• Creating a sustainability data transformation strategy that aligns with your vision
• Setting up your data infrastructure for success
• Managing internal organisational alignment
• Optimising for external supplier alignment