Sustainable Operations: How Facilities Managers Can Achieve ESG Goals
Part 1: Energy This blog post is Part 1 of a 3-part series focusing on energy, water and waste optimization in commercial facility management and industrial operations. Subscribe to The Protiviti View to follow the series. With growing interest from stakeholders and regulators, it’s becoming increasingly important for organizations to get their environmental, social and […]
Six Elements to Strengthen Sustainability
Environmental, social and governance issues are wide in their scope and important to address. So, how should firms begin to tackle them? Sustainability is one of the biggest challenges of our time, and one of the greatest opportunities. Solving the world’s environmental and social challenges will take collective action on a scale never seen before; […]
Optimizing Supply Chain Risk Management to Handle Disruption — aka Operating in the New Normal
The way that pre-pandemic supply chains are remembered wistfully today suggests that tariffs, storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, wars and labor strikes never presented manufacturers with difficulties procuring raw materials or shipping finished goods to customers on time, every time. Lean, just-in-time supply chain management focused on cost savings was the way to go, right? We know […]
New Oxford-Protiviti Survey Uncovers “Enthusiasm Gap” Between North America and the Rest of the World on ESG Issues
A VISION by Protiviti survey, conducted by the University of Oxford and Protiviti and polling 250 global executives on their 10-year outlook related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as they relate to business, revealed that business leaders in different regions of the world differ significantly in their perceptions of ESG issues as well […]
Transforming Your Talent Management Demands New Skills and a New Way of Thinking
With the shortage of available qualified job seekers to meet demand, companies are scrambling to find and hire the right talent before it’s snatched up by the competition. Executive leaders globally list the ability to attract and retain talent as one of their top risks for this year and across the next decade. But it’s […]
Dynamic Cash Flow Planning Demands Dynamic CFOs
I can’t resist: “Cash is King!” There, I’ve said it (again)! Of course, everyone knows that, but with the economic clouds on the horizon looking uncertain, we might as well use this tired old cliché to tee up a conversation about cash. In recent months, more companies have experienced a “TMI” problem — namely, too […]
