12. January 2024
Impact Before Profit: SocietyVision Unfolds Its Purpose
— By Hugues Chatelain, President and Founder — How profoundly is your business influencing society? During my 30-year working with major groups, it became increasingly clear to me that the future of all companies would depend on this very question. It is reality. We now are living in an era when companies need to broaden […]
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9. October 2023
A Devastating Critique of our Profit-Driven System
©Hugues Chatelain – SocietyVision CHE-378.733.097
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12. December 2022
Business, art and society: SocietyVision and the Accademia Dimitri at the ELIA biennial
SocietyVision shows at the ELIA Biennial in Helsinki what can be achieved by linking business, society and art. The association’s collaboration with the Dimitri Art School demonstrates the benefit of art to society: academic art used as an instrument to transform society. From 23 to 26 November 2022, Helsinki is hosting the 17th ELIA (European […]
More13. May 2021
A Success Story : When a Company Teams up with an Artistic Movement !
When two environments benefit from eachother with a common goal: to improve their impact on society. This is the story of a partnership between Euromaster Suisse SA & Accademia Dimitri (university affiliated to the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland). What happpens when a company decides to avoid using mainstream marketing tools […]
More7. May 2019
Most efficient thinktank ‘cost free’: how does that work?
Many companies try to keep their momentum investing in outsourced thinktanks, enabling spin offs or having an eye on start-ups who could bring value into their own model. Is this worth the efforts and costs? Their focus is rather concentric than systemic. Does it make sense? Companies miss perhaps one important point which is imbedded into the societal ecosystem.
More7. February 2019
Societal investments increase profit and reputation of business
The majority of business people consider money spent on cultural, social or environmental purposes as a kind of charitable program. WHY? We could answer with a question: would you believe in the link between investment in the societal good and a measurable return on investment (ROI) for the company involved?
More18. December 2018
L’engagement sociétal des entreprises: une solution pour réduire la dette publique et oeuvrer pour le bien commun
Lettre ouverte au Président de la Répulique Française, Emmanuel Macron.
Une solution pour rétablir l’équilibre entre finance, Administration publique, économie et société est la défiscalisation de l’investissement sociétal de l’entreprise.
1. November 2018
The Virtuous Path from Value [€] to VALUES
Are we too much focussed on value? Monetary value is at the centre of any valuation process for business or private purpose. Each and every single peace of land, property, material, or immaterial is worth an amount of money. What about VALUES? Is it worth to give up on transforming anything that surrounds us into monetary value? And integrate instead more values for the sake of more meaningfulness?
More14. September 2018
Sustainable Profitability: a Matter of Balance!
The Swiss Green Economy Symposium 2018 was the occasion to literally show with David Dimitri that sustainable profitability is a matter of balance. To focus on balancing societal and economic goals makes us all progress on the sustainability path.
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Swiss Green Economy Symposium 2018
Sustainably managing a business. How can positive effects on society and the environment through sustainable management be considered in a company value assessment? Finding the balance between Retrun on Investment (ROI), Return on Society (ROS) and Return on Environment (ROE) ist at stake.
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Cooperation with the Dimitri-World in Verscio (CH-Tessin)
Would that make sense to bring business and culture closer? If we look at the vision of the Dimitri World, we can easily state that culture is at the forefront of society transformation. The strong will of the Dimitri foundation is to shape a new long-term cooperation with a business partner. Society.Vision builds with the Dimitri World team the frame of the new organisation setup that will be housing a business for a strong and long partnership.
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