SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid on carbon accounting, hyperscaler transparency, and a “war” on how companies make decisions
The German software heavyweight is putting sustainability at the heart of both its own business and its value proposition for customers. Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid says the company needs to be an industry role model if it wants to “gain the credibility to act as an enabler”.
The extent to which Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) hold budget and how they allocate it is a fascinating one. Industry divergence is wide. Despite its importance as a line of questioning, how deep someone’s coffers are, or indeed whether they carry a purse at all is a delicate subject to broach.
Speaking with SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer Daniel Schmid, CSO Futures chooses the direct approach. After the briefest pause during which Schmid’s eyebrows raise ever so slightly, the answer is a somewhat unusual one.
