The Sustainability Scorecard

Chapter 6

Unexpected Opportunities for Large Corporations

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity”

—H. Jackson Brown

Change management efforts in large organizations have often been compared to turning a large ship. These efforts require approval from a lot of people, and even then may not result in the intended change.

While large publicly traded firms have a massive opportunity for impact by way of scale, they also have embedded systems, processes, capital (human and monetary), and technology. From a supply-chain perspective, globally interconnected and fragmented suppliers for every ingredient create a noisy procurement marketplace. Suppliers in particular often rely on term contracts with negotiated rates that inform their own ...