CIPM Urges Businesses To Embrace Strategic Collaborations For Sustainability

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) has charged businesses to clasp strategical collaboration for concern sustainability successful the country.

The group, astatine its 2025 Corporate Members’ Forum, which precocious took spot successful Ikeja, Lagos, and gathered starring organisations registered arsenic firm members of the Institute for a robust engagement connected concern sustainability, discussed the taxable ‘Driving Business Sustainability done Strategic Collaborations: Insights from the Nigerian Business Landscape.’ CIPM provided a level for thought-provoking discussions connected however Nigerian businesses tin thrive done strategical partnerships, innovation, and shared networks.

The president and president of the Governing Council, Mallam Ahmed Ladan Gobir, who delivered his opening remarks astatine the event, highlighted the captious relation of collaboration successful driving concern sustainability.

“There is simply a timeless African proverb that says: If you privation to spell fast, spell alone; but if you privation to spell far, you indispensable articulation force, whether successful business, politics, oregon adjacent successful postulation erstwhile ‘danfos’ make their ain lane! Everywhere you look successful Nigeria, 1 acquisition stands out: nary 1 succeeds successful isolation,” helium said.

Gobir described collaboration arsenic ‘the precise oxygen of sustainability,’ stressing that, portion Nigeria has 1 of the largest economies successful Africa and tiny businesses make 84% of jobs, galore illness wrong 5 years due to the fact that ‘while we person the numbers, we often deficiency the networks.’ He urged concern leaders to presumption collaboration arsenic the “currency of the future,’ captious for gathering associated ventures, integrating proviso chains, and creating shared endowment pipelines.

The keynote presumption was delivered by the wide manager, Strategy, Organisation and Performance astatine TotalEnergies EP Nigeria Limited, Lilian Oluchi Somiari, who shared applicable strategies connected leveraging partnerships and cross-sector alliances to heighten organisational show successful Nigeria’s challenging yet opportunity-rich concern environment.