{"id":29228,"date":"2021-05-31T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/interview-with-antonio-aragon\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T07:09:23","slug":"interview-with-antonio-aragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/en\/interview-with-antonio-aragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Antonio Arag\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"29228\" class=\"elementor elementor-29228 elementor-24582\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f1661b8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f1661b8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f54b0e4\" data-id=\"f54b0e4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0d8b72 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a0d8b72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\"Laragon Vision 2030 enables companies\nto comprehensively manage their business strategies\nfor the sustainability and climate change\"<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-8de56d1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8de56d1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-142f42d\" data-id=\"142f42d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a93ec07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a93ec07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/#equipo\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-115457.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-24572\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-115457.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-115457-13x12.jpg 13w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67ebac0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"67ebac0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"86\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-121737.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-24573\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-121737.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-121737-300x54.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-31-121737-18x3.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac84469 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ac84469\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What do you consider to be the main challenges facing Spanish multinationals in terms of sustainability?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fronts are multiple. On the one hand, they are adapting their governance models <\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to ensure that the agendas of the Boards and the executive team are aligned with new priorities in the areas of transparency<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to ensure that the agendas of the Boards and the executive team are aligned with new priorities in terms of transparency, parity and diversity, climate change and decarbonisation, security and well-being, etc.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This must then be transferred to all levels and areas of the organization. <\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Which implies changes in the way of defining strategies and objectives, planning and evaluating scenarios, designing action plans, prioritizing, identifying and allocating the necessary resources to undertake these plans and, above all, measuring the performance, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">impacts and results of their initiatives. Therefore, the real challenge is to make organizations face these issues in a transversal and collaborative way, and not in watertight compartments. If we do not adapt organizations to this way of working, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the efforts they make at the technical (innovation), tactical (business repositioning, pursuit of the optimal \u00abrating\u00bb\u2026) <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or operational (efficiency improvements, process <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">edesign\u2026) levels will have much less impact than desired.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For example, in order to comprehensively manage the risks derived from climate change, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">it is necessary to touch almost all the critical operations of companies and implement control systems that allow us to measure the impact of our actions and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">adjust our course according to changing scenarios.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f5a3a6d\" data-id=\"f5a3a6d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65ecf00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"65ecf00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Antonio Arag\u00f3n<\/strong><\/span>, economist. Executive MBA <\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">from IESE and Master in CSR and Sustainability from <\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Instituto de Empresa. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Founding Partner of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laragon.es\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laragon Consultants<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in which he currently holds the <\/span> <br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">position of Director of Strategy and Alliances, he had accumulated 20 <\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">years of experience in the Technology Consulting sector, <\/span><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">T15 of them linked to digitization<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in Sustainability and EHS areas.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c460ed3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c460ed3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another challenge is to promote the circular economy with collaborative initiatives between<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">private companies and administrations with the participation of experts and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">organised interest groups. <\/span> <\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the other hand, in search of support to face these challenges, companies of all <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sizes and sectors expect the Administrations to act with a <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">clear vision, strategic vision and, above all, with agility and dynamism.<\/span><\/p><h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>What can they do to overcome these challenges and how do you support them from Laragon?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I believe that companies face a huge talent management challenge to<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">help drive change and innovation, not to mention efficiently managing the enormous amount of financial resources needed to tackle the energy<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">transition. Interdisciplinary skills and the ability <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to collaborate and build alliances are needed more<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">than ever..<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the other hand,digitalization will be<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">a key factor to support all these <\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">changes. At Laragon we collaborate by contributing our experience <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in digital transformation processes <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and developing solutions that serve to cover<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the new business <\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">needs. An example of this is our <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vision 2030 project in which we have been<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">investing for more than a year, and which <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">aims to help companies to carry <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">out a comprehensive management of their sustainability and climate change strategies. <\/span> <\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But we do not stop there, part of our mission<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">is to make technology available <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to everyone, and that means implementing solutions <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that adapt to the size and budget of any company, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">or promoting collaborative projects, thuse <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">helping to remove a major barrier to <\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">their competitiveness. This <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">not only serves the SME fabric, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">but indirectly helps our <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">multinationals to have a more robust ecosystem of suppliers and supply chains, which benefits <\/span> <br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">their own sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Laragon Vision 2030 enables companies to comprehensively manage their business strategies for the sustainability and climate change&#8221; What do you consider to be the main challenges facing Spanish multinationals in terms of sustainability? The fronts are multiple. 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