SUSTAINABILITY IS A MINDSET
NOT A TECH PROJECT
IBM ’ s Global Sustainability Leader , Sheri Hinish – the Supply Chain Queen – says innovative thinking on sustainability is often what separates the trailblazers from the laggards
WRITTEN BY : SEAN ASHCROFT
Achieving net-zero supply chains is an era-defining challenge for organisations worldwide . Scour the world ’ s boardrooms , and you ’ ll struggle to find a CEO who fails to speak passionately about the importance of sustainability and their commitment to it .
Frankly , though , talk is cheap – unlike the reality of actually embedding sustainable practices across the workforce and beyond , all the way to the far reaches of the supply chain .
Few people are better qualified to speak about supply chain sustainability than Sheri Hinish , who is Consulting Global Leader for Sustainability Services , Alliances and Strategy at IBM , but is better known to her 47,000 followers on LinkedIn as ‘ The Supply Chain Queen ’.
Hinish – who describes her job as “ helping people make better decisions to design a better world ” – spoke about supply chain sustainability at Procurement & Supply Chain Live , which was held in London in April .
Dubbed the ‘ Risk & Resilience Conference ’ to reflect the current state of affairs for procurement and supply chains , the event saw Hinish query a live and remote audience
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