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Sustainability Report - Dell

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Challenges and Opportunities<strong>Dell</strong> is often reminded of the challenges and opportunities we are facing today. Although <strong>Dell</strong> has progressed as describedthroughout this report, we recognize the need to do more. Table 3 provides highlights of a few areas in which werecognize this need.Table 3: Challenges and Opportunities for the FutureArea<strong>Report</strong>ingChallenges/Opportunities1. Further improve our reporting "in accordance" with Global <strong>Report</strong>ing Initiative (GRI) guidelines.2. Integrate and support third-party verification.3. Continue to expand multiple-year goals throughout all relevant business impact areas.4. Improve methods to capture and measure internal data.<strong>Sustainability</strong>5. Further expand multiple-year goals associated with social and community issues.6. Expand our stakeholder engagement globally.Product7. Broaden our reporting associated with product environmental impacts.8. Develop guidelines for responsible product use and measurement of the impact of communicating theseguidelines to our customers.9. Develop an exit strategy for eliminating all brominated flame retardants by 2015.Climate Change10. Further integrate multiple-year goals associated with climate change into our sustainability initiatives.Supply Chain11. Develop and adopt industry-standard reporting criteria and tools to communicate results associatedwith assessments.12. Develop and set multiple-year goals associated with improvement measures.Diversity13. Increase stakeholder engagement and transparency in reporting.Asset Recovery14. Develop an industry standard for measuring company progress regarding product recovery andrecycling efforts.15. Manage worldwide recycling supplier conformance according to <strong>Dell</strong>'s high standards.Employee Awareness16. Implement a communications plan that measures employee engagement and awareness ofsustainability programs.D E L L S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T • F I S C A L Y E A R 2 0 0 611

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