The importance of insights
The common thread through all these challenges and potential initiatives is a need for deeper insight. Understanding OEM relationships, workforce needs, employee motivation, and the organization’s device portfolio – and how these factors change over time – is crucial for monitoring and demonstrating the impact of sustainability initiatives to the wider business.
Most leaders aren’t yet using data to their full advantage. Currently, 45% of organizations with net zero targets only use emissions data for mandatory reporting, when it’s a highly valuable resource for measuring the impact of initiatives and demonstrating that impact to the rest of the business. Data management is also a highly manual process at the moment, with only 7% of organizations automating emissions data collection, and just 13% using a carbon management solution at scale. This puts additional pressure on the business’ IT and data teams.
Deeper insights can support more informed decision-making and help leaders adjust their strategy as the landscape changes – but there’s a skills gap to contend with, too. More than half of organizations say they don’t have the required expertise for sustainable IT implementation.
To overcome these data visibility and capability barriers, organizations should consider working with an external partner. An industry expert can help guide leaders through the whole process of embedding sustainability into the employee device procurement and usage through:
Discovery phases to understand emissions “hotspots” in device procurement, deployment, operation, and decommissioning
Best practices to align leaders throughout the business
Techniques to engage employees and support behavioral change
The best sources of insight that already exist within the business, from IT monitoring tools to employee experience platforms
The right data collection, analysis, and monitoring technologies to automate insight and support ongoing work
Collaboration yields powerful results. For one Dutch retailer, Capgemini conducted a sustainability impact assessment with a view to reducing power consumption by 50%, which resulted in savings of 959 tCO2e and €1 million per year. What’s vital is finding the right method of collaboration for your business.
