Measuring your company’s sustainability performance by sifting through corporate trash is an honest approach to aligning corporate level goals with the implementation of day to day activities. Waste, recycling, and energy efficiency programs are the cornerstone of the best programs. Continue reading
The banking industry is evolving and companies like KeyBank are leading the charge with their focus on responsible banking, citizenship, and operations.
Andrew Watterson is the Head of Sustainability. He joined the team in April 2014. Andrew uses his sustainability and organizational change expertise to lead the bank in the development and execution of a sustainability strategy that positions the bank for growth. In his role, he works with the entire Corporate Responsibility team and bank leadership to help Key balance margin and mission to achieve dependable results. KeyBank is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and is one of the 25 largest banks in the United States. Continue reading
Art Stewart has been operating in the strategic management, leadership and corporate responsibility space for over 25 years. He currently heads his second consulting practice that is gearing up for a hard launch in Q1 2015. In his former role as vice president of corporate development for a Boston-headquartered global management consulting firm, and earlier as President of his first consulting firm, he worked with a wide range of organizations all grappling with aspects of ethics, accountability, human capital impact, social consciousness, and other components of corporate responsibility and sustainability. Continue reading
Big data analytics are changing the way companies manage brands, monitor the quality of products, and measure the efficacy of corporate social responsibility programs. Social media has driven data creation exponentially. Google Analytics tells us that fourth-fifths of all new data is unstructured and growing at 15 times the rate of traditional enterprise data. More data is created in 2 days than was created before all of 2003.
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Google trends show that the level of creation in business intelligence data has slowed over the last five years and that there is a sudden upswing in what industry calls “big data.” Big data is an aggregate of structured business intelligence data combined with available unstructured data from places like social media outlets, online articles, customer ratings and scoring mechanisms such as Amazon’s rating system. Big data has become a new tool in the toolbox of corporate risk executives for determining the factors that might jeopardize the success and security of a company and its products and services.
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