| | MARCH 20208As a leading global player in the food services business serving 100 mil-lion people every day, Sodexo faced a huge challenge ­ food wastage. It launched WasteWatch a few years ago ­ a program to reduce food waste by 50 percent in its entire value chain by 2025. Last year, the company won the Tech for Good award at the eCAC40 Ceremony organized by Les Echos, a French financial newspaper, for already achieving a significant part of its target. Sodexo realized that it couldn't achieve its ambitious target unless it involved all its employees in a massive digital transforma-tion exercise, which had to start with creat-ing digital literacy across the organization. In other words, everyone had to be fluent in data. It meant that they should understand the value of data and know how it was cre-ated, processed, stored & accessed for eve-ryone's use. The important takeaway from this project is that the organization created a `data-bilingual' leadership and manage-ment team, who could connect the dots be-tween business outcomes and data.Sodexo teams can now easily capture food waste data, giving clear insights into what is being wasted in their kitchens and why. Armed with this understanding, teams can implement targeted action to help end avoidable food waste. At the pilot sites, this program has prevented an average 50 per-cent of food being wasted.An eminent TEDx speaker, Amitabh has been associated with Ericsson for over 10 years now, prior to which he held the role of Vice President and Partner at IBM and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, respectively.THOUGHT LEADERSHIPAre You Fluent in Data?By Amitabh Ray, Managing Director, Ericsson Global ServicesAmitabh Ray, Managing Director
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