WSE/Walmart

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Wikisourcing Sustainable Enterprises Profile Form

1. Enterprise Information

Name:Walmart

URL:

Size: local, national, global

Headquarters location:

Initiative contact person: (if you know)

Name:

Phone/email:

Related links to articles about this enterprise's work:

2.Sustainability Initiative that Caught your Attention

Please describe including if possible:

i. What did this initiative set out to accomplish, or what problem was it addressing (if you know)?

ii. What outcomes/results did it achieve, against what measurable standard or target or goal (if you know)?

iii. Regardless of the results, how was the initiative received inside/outside the organization?

3. Why? What impresses you about this enterprise's sustainability initiative?

4. At what stage is this enterprise on the Sustainable Innovation Roadmap*?

1. Viewing Compliance as Opportunity
2. Making Value Chains Sustainable
3. Designing Sustainable Products and Services
4. Developing New Business Models
5. Creating Next Practice Platforms

Please indicate stage by number 1-5:

*Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation Harvard Business Review September 2009 pp56-64

5. Summarize this Sustainable Enterprise using 3 Tags

What are 3 key words (or short phrases) to summarize the essentials of your Sustainable Enterprise Profile?:

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6. Questions and or Suggestions?

If you had a chance to sit down with this enterprise's senior management what topics would you raise? Please limit to 3:

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7. In writing your profile what measures did you use for judging a sustainable enterprise?

8. What underlying principles guide this enterprise in their sustainability initiatives?

9. About the Profile Contributor

Your relationship to company profiled; e.g, employee, consultant to, investor, supplier, partner, customer, industry observer, other (please specify).

A link/s to tell us about you e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, your blog, company's web site

10. Reader Questions & Observations

Please use this space to add observations about items that the questions above omitted and or post questions to the profile authors.

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