The Swiss Project Management Journal
The People Project
We had a chat with the Director of Human
Resources at ATOS Consulting SA –
Madam Natacha Pagnoni to understand
further details on the initiatives from the
Swiss division.
Natacha mentions “Since a few years,
Atos Consulting SA has established an
environmental policy: The company is
committed to minimising wherever
possible the impact of its activities on the
environment and has its own “waste
ecopoints” within its offices.
While there is no specific budget for 2017
in Switzerland, the organization globally
has dedicated certain resources and fun-
ding to social responsibilities. Additio-
nally and locally, the company supports
such initiatives by the employees to move
forward with various actions that could
help improve sustainability or social
responsibility. For instance, the company
provides support to the initiatives by the
CSR team to collect used toys from its em-
ployees to be provided to the needy. The
local CSR team also collected funding for
the Autistic foundation which was well
appreciated by the colleagues and the
Autistic foundation.
Half of the employees at Atos are working
as project managers with various clients
and ATOS believes that the role of the
project managers is not only to cultivate
the principles of sustainability but also to
serve as light-houses - guiding everyone
along the process to be aware and adhere
to the sustainability initiatives.
“ATOS as a global organization is commit-
ted to environment sustainability and as
part of the local management of the
company, we provide complete support
to the global initiatives and also promote
the concept locally,” concludes Natacha.
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Conclusion
Based on our analysis and study, we
realise that the organizations have very
strong awareness about the importance
of sustainability and have a clear idea
about which direction they want to go in,
but the speed in which each organization
moves towards that goal seems to vary
depending on their business model and
their own DNA.
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Sustainable organizations seek to imple-
ment sustainability strategies which deli-
ver economic and cultural benefits. Re-
cently the natural environment has be-
come a key strategic issue in both
the business and academic communities.
Through implementing sustainability stra-
tegies, firms can integrate long-run profi-
tability with their efforts to protect
the ecosystem, providing them with
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