How We Work
Introduction
See the How We Work dashboard for an update on our performance
Sustainability at NIKE is fundamentally about the products we sell and how they are made. To become more sustainable, we must continue to transform the most basic parts of our business: how we design products, how we interact with suppliers, how we inspire our employees and how we engage with others outside the company. Many opportunities lie ahead to catalyze entire systems, by working beyond our company to unleash, share, inspire and scale innovation. To this end, we participate in multi-sector efforts to drive change.
During the last two years, we have made important changes that deepen the role of sustainability in our company. In 2013, our Sustainable Business & Innovation team joined NIKE’s broader Innovation organization. This move facilitates scaling of sustainability innovation throughout the company.
We have expanded the use of key sustainability tools throughout the company to build capabilities and facilitate more informed and effective decision making. Our NIKE Apparel Sustainability Index and NIKE Footwear Sustainability Index are now part of the standard product creation suite of tools used by all of our designers. Our Sourcing & Manufacturing Sustainability Index was integrated as a component into NIKE’s overall Manufacturing Index, making sustainability a factor in all supplier evaluations and ratings. New approaches to environmental footprinting, scenario planning and systems mapping are yielding fresh insights and perspectives on our performance and opportunities.
We also continue to develop and test tools that help to identify the key actions each function and team can take, and assess their progress toward integrating sustainability into the way they operate. In FY12, these efforts included the publication of our NIKE, Inc. sustainability targets and regular internal reporting against them.