Technology and Environmental, Social and Governance issues (ESG / ESG) have become some of the fundamental pillars for almost any entrepreneur or entrepreneur who wants to grow. The era of sustainability has passed. Unfortunately, our planet and our existence already need a new proposal. Now, it is not enough that business is sustainable. They need to take an active role in the regeneration of our ecosystem.
Therefore the need to move towards a new era of Regenerative Business, which actively operates with restorative models, from the point of view of people and the business itself. These models go beyond the zero result in impact (net zero) or carbon neutrality in their chain.They can create formats that favor the restoration of the ecosystems in which they are included.
In this model, the business processes created by the company are literally designed to be regenerative for the environment in which they generate impacts. This means not only using renewable inputs, but going further and creating ways that the very logic of extractive these inputs allow the ecosystem to flourish even more by the presence of that company in the extraction environment.
Nature is, in itself, totally efficient and self-regenerative. Think that corporate regenerative systems are us humans, acting and doing things as nature itself (regenerative living systems).
There are four environments for regeneration to occur in a systemic way: in business, in the economy, in people and in organizational culture. From the point of view of the first two, we need to understand that transformations occur within the business model.
Whether on the one hand or the other, if the company does not integrate and embodies the ability to generate and capture value, the impact does not become systemic. That is, without developing new skills and competencies, no business can say that it is undergoing a transformation.
Although very relevant today, technologies alone are not the answer. It is not enough to train the level of leadership in Artificial Intelligence if the next day there is no impact on the business model or the operation of your company. However the mastery of technological skills is precisely the differential that ensures agility in the transformation journeys.
Regeneration goes beyond resilience and sustainability. It is a strategy that drives the company and requires it to become a protagonist in its chain of impacts. Regenerative business models require a holistic approach, where business processes are intentionally planned to be beneficial to the ecosystem.
Technology as a potentiator of business transformation
Despite the many concerns about the exponential use of AI solutions is increasing considerably the consumption of electricity in the world, the technology itself is also a solution path.
In the first versions of blockchain we live the intensive need for electricity use, including to cool the data processing structures. But, for example, more rationalized formats of solution architecture and new technologies have allowed a reduction of more than 90% of this consumption in the latest generations of Ethereum applications.
And when we look at AI, we start to get a taste of this potentially promising scenario: the Ark Invest points out that AI tools can increase the productivity of collaborating people by almost 140% in the next eight years. In financial terms, this amounts to an increase of approximately US$ 50 thousand per working person, resulting in US$ 56 trillion worldwide. This availability of time and resources could change the level of businesses that are ready for this transition.
However, people and companies that are in a greater state of readiness for the agile changes that we will live in the coming years, be they climate, behavior and technology, can benefit from this new moment.In this context, the learning of tech skills is increasingly relevant not only for the IT areas of companies.
There is a high correlation between individuals who value continuous learning and the development of high-performance environments in companies. People with a growth mindset, those who constantly seek improvement and learning, bring a positive dynamic to the workplace.These individuals not only hone their own skills, but also inspire their colleagues to do the same, creating a virtuous cycle of development and innovation.
Companies that encourage learning and intellectual curiosity tend to have more robust and resilient organizational cultures.When employees feel they have the freedom and support to explore new ideas and acquire new knowledge, they feel more engaged and motivated.
The time has passed for us to have the privilege of pushing the problems we inherit to the next generations.The challenges of the future have never been more noticeable in our daily lives. And the next generation of leaders needs to understand that the great limiter of a more promising future is our own inability to think differently and act mindset leadership is our greatest threat to the future.
