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 # Leveraging the Against Position: How Two Leaders Are Driving Sustainability

 


 

 Nov 18, 2013 9:55 AM ET

  Campaign:  [SAP's Sustainable Corporate Strategy](/news/campaign/saps-sustainable-corporate-strategy) [Original article by David Wilcox on CSRwire](http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1107-leveraging-the-against-position-how-two-leaders-are-driving-sustainability)

### **Measuring Success: Make the World “Run Better”**

Expanding [SAP](http://www.csrwire.com/members/9950-SAP)’s tag line from “Run Better” to “Make the World Run Better” did not begin in the marketing department. The beginning of the thinking is represented in this statement from a September 2010 interview with [Peter Graf](http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/773-sap-s-1st-integrated-report-from-sustainability-to-integrated-thinking), named SAP’s first CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) the previous year:

> [**What is SAP's sustainability strategy?**](http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/sap-peter-graf-responds-to-sustainability-questions/)
> 
> Simply stated we have a two-part strategy: First, become a role model for how a large company can address sustainability both by policy and principles, and by using technology. Second, enable our customers to address sustainability using our technology.”
> 
> “As we started to develop our own sustainability approach, we found that software tools weren’t very well-developed to gather and collect information as part of a business process. There were no links to common master data, no organized workflow and little built-in reporting standards. So we identified several different opportunities to create or improve existing tools. As a result we established our ‘enabler’ strategy to help customers use software to become more sustainable, and make it much easier to track and report progress, allowing for more time to focus on improvement.”
> 
> [Read the full article about driving sustainability on CSRwire at >>](http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1107-leveraging-the-against-position-how-two-leaders-are-driving-sustainability)
> 
> Original post on [CSRwire](http://www.csrwire.com).



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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