In a recent survey, Bain & Company found that just 2% of companies are successful in achieving their sustainability goals. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.
How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals
In a recent survey, Bain & Company found that just 2 percent of companies are successful in achieving their sustainability goals. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way. Ingersoll Rand, is a 146 year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. But I think it’s fair to say that we are part of the 2 percent that have succeeded. What lessons can we share? We learned how to embed sustainability into our organization by empowering our people (particularly front-line workers), making sustainability personal and compelling, and aggregating and recognizing results.