Ideas & Writing
Every organisation in this field has a sustainability commitment. Very few have a changed supply chain. These pieces work through the distance between the two: what compliance instruments can and cannot do, why certification excludes the producers it names, and where technology genuinely helps.
Most recent
The dominant framing in most boardrooms treats sustainability as a values decision, admirable, but in tension with growth. Fourteen years of field research has convinced us this framing is not just wrong. It is the precise reason transformation keeps failing.
Certification
A forensic look at why standards consistently fail to produce transformation. The resource burden, smallholder exclusion, and the audit model that tells you what was happening 18 months ago.
Technology
Beyond the hype. What Blockchain can and cannot do for supply chain transparency, and why the missing piece is system redesign rather than technology adoption.
Reputation Risk
How supply chain opacity becomes brand crisis, and why the warning signs are consistently in the data, three years before the scandal, if anyone is looking.
Transformation
The code of conduct is not a transformation tool. It is a compliance instrument. Understanding the difference is where genuine supply chain change begins.
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