OUTLOOK

Sustainability

Real competitive advantage through sustainability. How to get it? Through five “circular” business models that bring you closer to what your customers want. And act as a wellspring of innovation.

Why challenges are opportunities for corporate disruptors

In this episode of Up Close, Jessica Long of Accenture Strategy explains how sustainable development goals create value.

A clear edge: Reaping the rewards of the circular economy

Position your business to take advantage of one of the biggest economic opportunities of the next 15 years.

Latest Thinking

Beyond compliance

Financial institutions have begun to address misconduct issues within their ranks, but resolving them for the long term will require much more than just tightening rules and regulations.
An environment of opportunity?

There’s sustained advantage to be gained from combating climate change, but many businesses just aren’t seizing it.

Garbage in, value out

The Recovery and Recycling business model enables companies to minimize waste and maximize output from discarded resources.
Reliable sources

Using the Circular Supply Chain business model, companies can select sustainable materials to support their production processes, lessening their dependence on scarce resources while reducing waste and inefficiency.
Even better the second time around?

With the Product Life Extender business model, companies keep products economically useful for longer and generate value from investments already made.
Today's forecast: Hurricanes, ice storms, extreme heat, tornadoes

Here's how digital technologies are enabling climate resilience.
Portrait of a disruptive new business model

Most household power tools are used for less than an hour during their life cycles. How can you redefine their usefulness?
A failure to communicate

No one doubts CEOs’ conviction about the importance of sustainability. But how effective are they in making the business case to one of their most important stakeholder groups: their investors?
Why green is the new gold

By turning sustainability initiatives into drivers of measurable value, some CEOs are outperforming their peers and forging a path for others to follow.
Buy and own? That’s so yesterday’s model

With the Product as a Service business model, product longevity, reusability and sharing are no longer seen as cannibalization risks, but instead, as drivers of revenue and reduced costs.
The new economic paradigm

Jeremy Rifkin, president, TIR Consulting Group, says history’s pivotal economic shifts happen when new energy regimes converge with communications revolutions.
Holistic, inclusive, robust: How end-to-end sustainable systems drive business value

Plenty of companies have taken steps toward becoming more sustainable, but none has turned that progress into truly transformational change.
Why a sustainable supply chain is good business

By working with their suppliers to systematically monitor, measure and communicate the benefits of cleaner and more socially responsible business, leading companies are starting to turn supply chain sustainability into a driver of competitive advantage.

Themes

Sustainability

Real competitive advantage through sustainability. How to get it? Through five “circular” business models that bring you closer to what your customers want. And act as a wellspring of innovation.
Redefining Competitiveness

The old model of market lifecycles is gone. Today’s market lifecycles are characterized by violent success and then dramatic decline—a shark fin, not a bell curve. Competing requires using digital technology to gain organizational agility, enable innovation and drive profitable growth.
Workforce of the Future

Digital is about cold efficiency and doing away with the human touch. Right? Wrong. Technology is making the work experience—and the workforce—more democratic, more networked, more human.

Digital Disruption

Not ready for digital disruption? Bad news: Your customers are. And the companies that meet their needs first will gain a competitive advantage difficult for rivals to overcome.
Global Operating Model

Transforming enterprises by creating flexible and durable operating models that deliver products and services in a consistent way to customers on a global scale.
Open Innovation

To compete successfully, companies need to break out and leverage an ecosystem that offers new sources of innovation. How? Enter the bridge-maker—connecting multiple organizations, fueling breakthroughs at scale.

Outlook: Accenture's journal of high-performance business

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OUTLOOK

Sustainability

Latest Thinking

Beyond compliance

An environment of opportunity?

Garbage in, value out

Reliable sources

Even better the second time around?

Today's forecast: Hurricanes, ice storms, extreme heat, tornadoes

Portrait of a disruptive new business model

A failure to communicate

Why green is the new gold

Buy and own? That’s so yesterday’s model

The new economic paradigm

Holistic, inclusive, robust: How end-to-end sustainable systems drive business value

Why a sustainable supply chain is good business

Themes

Sustainability

Redefining Competitiveness

Workforce of the Future

Digital Disruption

Global Operating Model

Open Innovation

Outlook: Accenture's journal of high-performance business

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