Business Chief April 2019

SUSTAINABILITY
“The impact of creating
and implementing our
own sourcing model
has been profound
not only for the farmers
but for our business
and all those in
our community”
—
Suranga Herath,
CEO of English Tea Shop
70
employee since the Big Game
initiative was introduced. Without
wanting to be too trite about it, helping
people help themselves is much more
sustainable and powerful.
5.FIGURE OUT THE MEASURING
AND MONITORING SYSTEM.
If you’re going it alone, you need to
find a robust way of benchmarking the
outcomes of your model. Failing to do
so could cause more harm than good.
This could involve developing a
framework for measuring social and
economic impact for your investments
and efforts and then tracking how
business is directly and indirectly
impacted as a result of such social
progress.
6.MAINTAIN A LASER FOCUS
ON CREATING SHARED VALUE.
Creating a sourcing model is not
without its ups and downs and there
APRIL 2019