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Why positive impact and technology are the way forward
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Our planet and society need our support to overcome pressing challenges. An increasing number of businesses acknowledges this and chooses to become and to stay a positive force for change. Technology can be helpful to achieve this ambition. In fact, I believe it is one of the key levers for change.
The 10 posts in this series deep dive into this instrumental role of technology and make up a guide to organizational positive impact and technology.
Companies are increasingly choosing positive impact
A company that wants to make a positive impact isn’t all that new. Take Benetton, for example. They launched, over 30 years ago, a series of advertisements that didn’t put their product front and center. Instead, they addressed societal issues such as inequality, racism, religious freedom and AIDS.
Fast forward to the present day and there seems to be an explosion of companies making big inspirational statements declaring to do good for planet and society.
Adopting to a new context
Why the sharp increase? Not to give away the ending, but it’s just sound business. Especially since we have been exposed to several large-scale events lately that have made us aware of how vulnerable our way of life is and how dependent we are on our planet.
Companies are as much impacted by those large-scale events as we are, as individuals. As a result, there is much more focus now on organizations’ positive impact, resilience and agility. Organizations that adapt to the new context and that contribute positively to a bigger purpose than just their bottom line will have a place to do business in the future.
10 posts on organizational positive impact and technology
I’ll post a series on organizational positive impact and technology. Each post will take around three minutes to read.
- A guide to organizational positive impact, tech edition
- Doing good drives profitability
- Major events and big statements
- Be consistent about your positive impact
- A strong purpose proposition requires agility and resilience
- Agility and organizational complexity, beware of the present
- How to create positive impact with technology? Foster critical thinking
- Technology as an accelerator for positive impact
- Assess how technology shapes your organizational positive impact
- Reframe technology’s purpose and strengthen organizational alignment
You’ll find my posts and more at SogetiLabs.
