It can be frustrating when you're trying to make a positive change, like integrating sustainable tech, and you encounter pushback from external partners. It's important to remember that everyone has their own priorities and concerns. 1. Understand their perspective; 2. Address their concerns; 3. Highlight the shared benefits; 4. Offer a phased approach; 5. Build a strong case. Building trust and understanding is key. By actively listening, addressing concerns, and presenting a compelling case, you can overcome pushback and create a more sustainable future together.

Overcoming push back from external partners on sustainable tech integration requires strategic communication. Highlight the financial benefits, including cost savings and ROI, as well as environmental advantages and social responsibility. Share credible case studies and industry success stories to build credibility. Address concerns through collaborative workshops, offering phased implementation and flexibility. Quantify risk mitigation and compliance benefits, ensuring transparency throughout. By educating and engaging partners on mutual benefits, you can drive sustainable tech adoption and foster a collaborative, eco-friendly approach.

Take the time to understand the reasons for pushback. Sometimes partners can be concerned about their ability to integrate and use a new tech- but they won't present it in that way. Understand the reasons, find the priorities, and have structured discussions where you can also show the benefits of integrating the new tech and why it is not so threatening.

Pushbacks from external partners usually stem from misalignment of priorities and agenda. They may have different agenda than yours. 1. Uncover that agenda through candid discussion and one-to-one meeting 2. Understand their point of view and play Devil's advocate 3. Formulate strategies to engage both internal and external so that any change is communicated through proper channel and ensure openness is the key.

Here's how you build the case on tech integration for your external partners. - AI and IoT automate gathering data on energy and emissions reducing manual input errors and time. - Sensors and cloud platforms provide real-time insights into sustainability metrics, enabling up-to-date reporting. - Analytics tools detect trends and risks in sustainability data, helping companies make informed decisions. - Software platforms align data with global frameworks (e.g., BRSR/CSRD), ensuring regulatory compliance - Blockchain ensures data integrity and traceability, increasing trust through verifiable disclosures.

Enfrentar a resistência de parceiros externos em relação à integração de tecnologias sustentáveis é um desafio que envolve a adoção de certas medidas para ser superado. Diante disso, é necessário sensibilizar e apresentar aos parceiros os benefícios da aplicação de tecnologias sustentáveis. Dentro deste contexto, é importante trazer exemplos de sucesso e apresentar o retorno financeiro a longo prazo.

People usually push back because they don't have any buy in to the idea. It is as simple as that. You have to find out what is important to your partners, what drives them and what they are interested in. Then show them how sustainable tech integration will help them with their goals as well. You have to angle your conversation to that. Bojana is correct, this also requires active listening, notice the word "active". Just don't hear your partners, listen.

A resistência à mudança é natural, mas vejo isso como uma oportunidade de inovação colaborativa. Iniciamos com diálogos abertos para entender as preocupações reais dos parceiros. Organizamos demonstrações práticas e compartilhamos casos de sucesso relevantes. Nosso foco é criar uma visão compartilhada de futuro, onde a sustentabilidade impulsiona não apenas o impacto ambiental positivo, mas também a eficiência e competitividade dos negócios.

Any new technologies or systems are often faced with resistance as no one is ever wanting to change the usual business and go through unforeseen risks. To address this issue, I must introduce the new technology in terms of the following advantages to overcome the resistance: 1* Capital and running cost advantage 2* Reliability advantage 3* Sustainability advantage 4* Easy operation & control

Partners adopting sustainable tech is often a critical aspect of scope 3 admissions reductions. Sometimes longtime partners will cooperate, sometimes they won’t. Consider opening the supplier relationship to open tender, making the sustainability requirement needed a non-negotiable part of the tender. Recompeting a longtime vendor relationship can be healthy in getting better pricing and terms, and essential if you need to exert leverage to force implementation of sustainability tech essential to your plans.