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Host Europe: Advancing CSR and Sustainability in a Medium Sized IT Company

Host Europe: Advancing CSR and Sustainability in a Medium Sized IT Company. Management Information Systems MIS 501. Summarize the characteristics of this firm. What is the industry like? What resources are used by this firm to meet its customers’ needs? How can they increase efficiency?.

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Host Europe: Advancing CSR and Sustainability in a Medium Sized IT Company

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  1. Host Europe: Advancing CSR and Sustainability in a Medium Sized IT Company Management Information Systems MIS 501

  2. Summarize the characteristics of this firm. • What is the industry like? • What resources are used by this firm to meet its customers’ needs? • How can they increase efficiency? Company Overview

  3. What is Corporate Social Responsibility? • To whom is a firm responsible? • What is a firm responsible for? • What does CSR encompass? • Is it only the environment? • Is it only its people? CSR?

  4. Walmart Canada ‘refocuses’ fresh-produce supply chain • Walmart’s Progress on Sustainable Seafood Efforts Consider Walmart

  5. Host Europe seems to be doing well in relation to CSR issues • What more could they do? • Does CSR add or subtract from a firm’s position? • How (or how not)? • Are they proud of their record? Aren’t they doing enough already?

  6. CSR • What would an even more complete CSR engagement look like? • Which kinds of measure or actions could be taken to accomplish these goals? • What impact would such changes have on the economic viability of the firm? CSR Initiative

  7. Social Issues at Host Europe • What are they doing “wrong” • What are they doing “right” • What social changes are feasible? • Which kinds of measure or actions could be taken to accomplish these goals? • What impact would such changes have on the firm? Social Change

  8. What needs to be done to make any additional changes? • What would be the outcome on the firm’s performance? • How could they measure the effect of these changes? • Financial • Environmental/Social Making the change

  9. As green technology initiatives proliferate, the question of how to manage these innovations is needed. Innovating in Uncertain Markets: 10 Lessons for Green Technologies

  10. Exhibit A…

  11. Foremost, Learn from the Past How to deal with new innovations?

  12. Lesson 1: Timing is everything • Watch out for bubbles, they will almost always show up • Lesson 2: Change occurs slowly • The chicken/egg problem • Cost or performance barriers. • Coevolution versus pure substitution • Lesson 3: Collaboration is crucial • Strategic alliances with industry trade associations • Public/private partnerships Lessons Learned

  13. Lesson 4: Innovation takes many forms • New innovation models will be essential for making green technologies work • Lesson 5: Embrace uncertainty by maintaining options • Scenario thinking • Real options thinking • Lesson 6: Anticipate where the money will be • You need to “skate to where the puck will be • Lesson 7: Think beyond industry boundaries Lessons Learned

  14. Lesson 8: Share for joint gain • A diverse web of participants magnifies the value of individual perspectives, while distributing the risks and rewards of investment more broadly • Lesson 9: Watch the periphery • Organizational vigilance • Senior managementneeds to adapt to change • Lesson 10: Become ambidextrous • Know how to balance a learning and a performance culture • Attend to the short-term while also taking the long view • Orient toward both people and tasks, as the situation demands Lessons Learned

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