Open Agent for Sustainability (OA4S)
We have created a new professional figure: the Open Agent for Sustainability. This is a real special agent who helps to operationalize sustainability in organizations on a daily basis.
We have created a new professional figure: the Open Agent for Sustainability. This is a real special agent who helps to operationalize sustainability in organizations on a daily basis.
Together with our partners at Shape of time, we have created the Open Agent for Sustainability (OA4S), a new professional figure that combines sustainability knowledge (e.g. Sustainability Manager) with openness knowledge (e.g. Open Agent) to promote self-organization and the achievement of relevant social, environmental and economic impacts.
The Open Agent for Sustainability (OA4S) works so that processes, initiatives and actions – harbingers of possible impacts – can find fertile ground in each and every business function, where they can be identified, deepened and reported to the function that will help implement them within the corporate strategy.
It is a figure within the company that must be trained ad hoc and can be identified within each business unit. It is created to open the boundaries of the organization, because a company that is open to the world is more competitive and better able to seize opportunities, but also possible risks.
Tools borrowed from the world of design thinking and openness are part of the OA4S toolbox. Some we already share on the site – discover the services and download the pdfs.
Our vision is clear: sustainability (social, environmental and economic) creates new business models.
Who is in charge? We believe in open and agile change management models to manage the complexity of creating positive and sustainable impact. For positive change to happen, we need to promote new governance models that move away from the logics of the past and open up to collaborative dynamics.
Sustainability is a living matter that needs a different approach: the agile methodology developed in ICT allows us to be quick, effective and adjust our focus as soon as we need to.