Breaking down silos: How one of the world’s biggest software companies approaches collaboration

At the ESG Insider podcast, we’ve been hearing a key theme on repeat: Solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss require collaboration across silos. In this 'Breaking down silos' miniseries of the podcast, we’re bringing you examples of how collaboration across different groups of stakeholders happens in practice. 

Today in Part II, we hear the perspective of one of the world’s largest software companies in our interview with Stephen Jamieson, Global Head of Circular Economy Solutions at SAP. Stephen says a behavior shift is required to address big sustainability challenges. 

“The solutions to climate change, the solutions to biodiversity … it's in the behavior of how people are working and collaborating with businesses and how they consume products,” Stephen says.   

And policy is “critical to enabling action,” he tells us. “This then stimulates the rest of the activity — stimulates that need for businesses to innovate, to find solutions, to be able to go and drive the reframing of the value proposition, discovering reuse solutions, how to scale infrastructure,” he says.  

Listen to our episode about how AI became the buzzword at Davos: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/how-ai-became-the-buzzword-at-davos 

Listen to our episode about why nature was front and center on the Davos agenda: https://www.spglobal.com/esg/podcasts/nature-was-front-and-center-on-the-davos-agenda-here-s-why 

Listen to the first episode in our ‘Breaking down silos’ miniseries, where we talk to Jason Bordoff, Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, about balancing the role of policy and the private sector in the energy transition: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-down-silos-balancing-the-role-of-policy/id1475521006?i=1000644772538    

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