{"id":7398,"date":"2015-07-23T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:00:19","slug":"from-sustainability-to-innovability-my-experience-at-expo-2015-with-accenture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/news-en\/from-sustainability-to-innovability-my-experience-at-expo-2015-with-accenture\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sustainability To Innovability. My experience at EXPO 2015 with Accenture."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left size-full wp-image-7214 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/EXPO-2015-body1.jpg\" alt=\"EXPO-2015-body\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/>Recently, <strong>LUISS Business School<\/strong> and <strong>Accenture Strategy<\/strong> offered us, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.partime.mba.luiss.edu\/\">MBA part time<\/a> programme\u00a0students, the opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/news-en\/accenture-and-luiss-bs-part-time-mba-experience-the-expo-2015-from-a-sustainability-perspective-2\/\"><strong>visit the 2015 Expo<\/strong><\/a><strong> in Milan and to take part in a seminar held by Accenture on the sustainability<\/strong>. It was an exceptional experience.<\/p>\n<p>The venue had a relevant role in making this experience unique. Moreover, my MBA classmates and I had the chance to spend quality time together, far from project works or exams preparation on a beautiful (and very hot) summer day, at the EXPO\u00a0 and we really \u00a0appreciated. Finally yet importantly, we were guests within Accenture Strategy, a quite \u00a0remarkable landlord to be hosted by. Accenture Strategy kindly opened the doors of their prestigious lounge and took us through a very interesting journey on sustainability and innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left size-full wp-image-7401 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/accenture-board.jpg\" alt=\"accenture-board\" width=\"289\" height=\"289\" \/>Sustainability is often an abused word, but Accenture Strategy helped us understand and translate this sometimes-intangible concept into something very practical. They had rigorously showed how sustainability is strictly related to firms\u2019 competitive advantage, and explained effectively \u00a0how sustainability is going to eventually be one of the strongest driver of innovation in\u00a0business<\/strong>. The discussion was very engaging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conducted by Accenture\u2019s experts we had an overview on how major companies<\/strong> (for example Enel), <strong>as well as small firms, are redesigning their organizational structure in order to be more effective in managing the environmental impact of production and in order to meet investors\u2019 requirements about risk mitigation<\/strong>. We were shown how new models of sharing among companies could provide expensive but strategic equipment to more firms of a business cluster, firms that individually could not afford them (for example 3D printers).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left  wp-image-7400 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/accenture-lesson.jpg\" alt=\"accenture-lesson\" width=\"291\" height=\"213\" \/>Clearly not being able to access \u00a0such advance resources or accessing in delay may affect or even prevent the growth. <strong>We were guided through how top companies are transforming their processes with the aim of\u00a0decoupling growth from resources usages<\/strong>.\u00a0They explained how many different ways can make a business sustainable when switching from the old-fashioned\u00a0linear growth model to the new concept of\u00a0a circular economy models, where products are designed since the beginning to be sustainable (for instance choosing material on the basis of the potential reuse). Where industrial waste is turned into a resource, structures and equipment are refurbished and end-of-life products are disassembles and single components reused (e.g. Renault cars).<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7399 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gruppo-mba-partime-luiss-milano-expo-2015.jpg\" alt=\"gruppo-mba-partime-luiss-milano-expo-2015\" width=\"1024\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gruppo-mba-partime-luiss-milano-expo-2015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gruppo-mba-partime-luiss-milano-expo-2015-810x350.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\n<p><strong>As MBA students, we were not only given a deeply valuable tool to understand the fast changing world in front of us. We were also proved that sustainability is a key aspect to improve our business of today as well as something crucial we need to think about when preparing, training and developing ourselves to be future leaders of innovation. I think this is basically what inspired all of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left wp-image-7403 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Pierluca-Arietti.jpg\" alt=\"Pierluca-Arietti\" width=\"159\" height=\"197\" \/> <strong><em>Pierluca Arietti<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.partime.mba.luiss.edu\/\">LUISS BS part-time MBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA Part Time students  visit the 2015 Expo in Milan and to take part in a seminar held by Accenture on the sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"Master":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"Master","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessschool.luiss.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/Master?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}