We at Ottobock call ourselves

the human empowerment company.

From day one, over 100 years,
we have been helping people

with a handicap to
basically live a normal life

and that is part of our
mission and with that,

we are contributing to society,

by providing socioeconomic benefit,

because what we ultimately
do is we make people

productive again and we came to realize

that we should measure that.

We should tell the health
care systems in the world

that what we can offer
contributes to society

in a measurable way.

In 2015, Hans Georg Näder signed up

for the UN Global Compact

and ever since, we have
voluntarily published

an annual sustainability report. In 2019,

we started to put a bit
more structure to the way

we looked at the data and the
stories that were centered

around the topic of
sustainability within Ottobock

and we came to realize that data

and topics were quite
dispersed across the company,

which made us realize that we
have to focus and prioritize.

We thought that there
could be an opportunity

for us to set a new frontier
as to how you look at the "S,"

the societal impact of
enterprises within society.

And this is where we started
with the help of BCG

to measure the socioeconomic benefit

of what we do with our patients and users.

We wanted to be the
ESG leader in our field

and you have to be very
clear about that commitment

from the very top.

So it's for me, clearly,
a CEO topic and with that,

you need to form a dedicated
team that is doing this,

not on the sideline,

but very much focused on
the clearly set deliverables

as defined by the rating agencies.

It's very important to focus,
and it's also very important

to have a very good
project execution support.

When people came to realize
that what they're doing is good

for the company, for the
stakeholders, and for society,

they developed a kind of
own dynamism that ended up

in a very smooth project execution,

with a great spirit, and
people were extremely proud

at the end when we got the
results from this private rating

as the leader in our field.