Sustainability is good business sense
Increasing stakeholder, regulatory, environmental and social pressures now demand that sustainability must become a priority driver on your business agenda. Correctly approached, sustainability can generate cost reductions, revenue enhancement and competitive advantage. Our sustainability solutions are designed to enhance the current, and future, value creation and viability of your organization. Our approach is to work with established experts from both Academia and Commerce to provide optimal business solutions to meet these new demands. Not only will we help to evolve a targeted sustainability strategy, if required, but we can deploy specific tools to ensure the new sustainability strategy delivers the required end results.
We believe that sustainability creates new business opportunities through Innovation, Collaboration and Education whilst responding to macro drivers like climate change and energy security. By developing a closer linkage between People, Process, Technology and Infrastructure, our clients can drive savings (through eco-efficiencies), provide greater customer value (through eco-innovation), and develop long term synergies between stakeholders and customers. We continually track the business implications of new Government legislation to ensure that they can be applied in the most cost efficient way to meet sustainability criteria.
We help our clients generate enhanced value to both investors and customers whilst meeting new social and environmental demands, thus helping to future–proof organizations in these challenging times. Our sustainability solutions cover the following aspects:
- Sustainability Performance Management
- Sustainable IT (Greener IT & Sustainable Enabling Technology)
- Sustainable Supply Chain
- Sustainable Procurement
- Sustainable Behaviour & Change
Sustainability Performance Management
To ensure success, sustainability initiatives need to be base-lined, monitored and tracked to identify the winners and losers. Our Sustainability Performance Management solution uses business intelligence to dynamically track performance against those sustainability key performance indicators relevant to your organization.
Our solution is based on practical support and implementation expertise. We work with you to help you gauge the effectiveness of your current sustainability initiatives and ensure you have the right people, processes and technology deployed to achieve your desired goals. Our aim is to provide you with the most effective tools to communicate, embed and deliver sustainability benefits across your company.
Our solution cuts across organizational boundaries to help you to:
- Build compelling business cases to help articulate the tangible and intangible benefits of the sustainability strategy and initiatives
- Encourage senior leadership and employees to become advocates for change
- Agree meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and targets to cascade down throughout your organization
- Identify sustainability drivers and decide on: what to measure, when to measure and how to effectively report
- Comply with sustainability regulations and standards and obtain guidance on best practices pertinent to your organization then helping you to accommodate them
- Make selective use of performance management tools, such as scorecards and dashboards, to focus on areas of optimal benefit
- Extract, analyze and update data in a way that minimizes manual effort and integrates sustainability into routine processes and reporting.
Sustainable IT
As the use of IT increases, so does the amount of energy consumed thus causing a significant contribution to green house gases (GHG). IT also acts as an enabler to reduce the impact an organization has on the environment and society through new ways of working. We call this Sustainable IT and look at it two ways:
Greener IT
Here we examine how to make the IT functions more sustainable, whilst maximizing efficiencies. For example, solutions such as server virtualization, green data centers and Desktop Anywhere can provide significant cost and carbon savings within the IT function. We not only focus on large scale IT systems but also the buildings that house them. Our Sustainable Infrastructure Programme has been built on collaborative work with The Building Research Establishment (BRE) to enable us to assess the design, installation, running costs and performance issues of your IT estate and data centers.
Sustainable Enabling Technology
According to Gartner, 2% of the world’s Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) come from IT and its use (the same as air travel). However, IT has the capability to enable innovations - through new ways of designing, delivering and consuming products and services - that can affect the remaining 98% of GHG contributions, hence it is a key enabler in the transformation to a low-carbon, sustainable society. For example, enabling technology can help optimize transportation routes and fleet usage leading to significant reductions in GHG emissions and costs. Through Enabling Technology solutions we can help identify and implement solutions that deliver eco-efficiencies and eco-innovations in all parts of your business.
Sustainable Supply Chain
An organization's supply chain offers significant opportunities to drive down costs and increase revenues whilst improving the sustainability of the company's products and services. Our approach to the Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) is to review the complete value chain of your organization - including suppliers, manufacturing and distribution components, logistics and the use of the product, including the end of life aspects. We recognize that a variety of stakeholders need to collaborate across the ethical value chain in order to ensure customer value is optimized whilst maximizing the opportunities of eco-efficiencies and eco-innovation.
Sustainable Procurement
Sustainable procurement is now shifting from a 'defensive' mode (where procurement strategies merely pass down compliance standards and sustainability measurements to suppliers) to a more 'proactive' mode (where the procurement strategy encourages collaboration with suppliers). This collaboration not only aims to improve the sustainability across the product life-cycle but to also develop synergies across the value chain which can lead to reducing supplier risks and price volatility. Our approach to Sustainable Procurement focuses on diagnostics to help an organization identify areas of opportunity to drive down costs whilst improving sustainability.
Sustainable Behaviour & Change
The need for organizations to become more sustainable (as the rate of change towards the new low carbon economy increases over the next decade) will demand that the basic principles of sustainability become embedded within the core decision making of all successful business practices. Such a significant transformation requires sea-changes in behaviour of all people, at all levels, within organizations. Encouraging, recognizing and rewarding the right behaviour to transform your organization is fundamental to ensuring that the cost-saving and revenue-generating opportunities are maximized. Our change management specialists at Atos Origin have linked up with best-of-breed niche partners who specialize in sustainability to combine deep sector experience with proven sustainability experience. We use this combined wealth of experience to tailor change management programs to suit your company.