How generative businesses create a path to purpose-powered growth

WARC's US commissioning editor Cathy Taylor talks with Neil Parker, chief strategy officer and co-founder of Co:Collective about the company’s research on how and why purpose-led companies succeed not only in doing the right thing, but in terms of business metrics.

The company conducted qualitative research by interviewing a number of established brands and organizations, including Hewlett-Packard, The New York Times, Unilever and UNICEF. The research showed enormous consistency in how each company approaches purpose: each aligns their organization against a purpose that fits with their business, embeds it throughout the organization, and then activates it through a variety of operations and strategies. Co:Collective calls these generative businesses businesses because they generate additional value for more stakeholders, on a more sustainable basis.

A full article on this topic can be found here on WARC.