This is not just key to our sustainability strategy. It’s part of our business strategy – and it
guides us as we move forward. This report covers our performance during FY10/11, the time
during which we developed and refined this vision. Much of our progress and what we learned
during this period laid the foundation for how we’re moving ahead to make the vision a reality.
This vision has been built on years of assessing trends and materiality for Nike and the changes
that are impacting our business, our value chain, our consumers and the world. In 2007, we
undertook an assessment (along with SustainAbility, a consulting firm) of some meta trends
that have only become more relevant as we’ve shaped and defined our strategy (see findings
on the next page). These meta trends highlight the areas of our value chain and our business
that have the most potential for innovation. We use these filters in our work, our assessment
of opportunity and the way we approach reporting