Did you begin the year resolving to become a better you?
If so, you’re far from alone. While many focus on enhancing themselves, some also want to improve our world. Increasingly, this means executives must add sustainability initiatives into their business and technology agendas.
Like a wellness regimen, driving sustainability can be overwhelming when you try and do everything all at once. It becomes more manageable—with more immediate, measurable results—when you incorporate this priority into existing plans.
By adding sustainability goals to near- and long-term technology strategies, you can leverage your planned resources across multiple deployments like physical and network security, automation, and hybrid work to improve business and sustainability results. Streamlining these two priorities reduces the complexity that implementing a separate sustainability strategy requires.
You get the anticipated organizational and technology results—such as enhanced productivity, new insights across business units, increased sales, and improved employee and customer experiences—plus measurable sustainability outcomes pertaining to heating, cooling, electrical and fuel consumption and more.
Saving Earth with the cloud
Just as the path to health typically starts with exercise (and eating more vegetables), the infrastructure-based track to sustainability begins with the cloud and measurement.
Increasingly adopted for its ability to support agility and flexibility, as well as initiatives such as hybrid work, adopting or expanding cloud usage also helps organizations reduce carbon emissions by more than 55% (40 megatons of CO2 worldwide, or about the total emissions of Switzerland each year), estimated McKinsey.
The momentum is here. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator or adding applesauce instead of eggs to a favorite recipe, fortifying existing plans with sustainability goals brings new benefits and bolsters your business.
Five moves toward a healthier habitat
So how can you make a nutritious infrastructure chock-full of sustainability-rich capabilities?
Here are five ways to accomplish enterprise goals—including driving sustainability outcomes—with cloud-managed infrastructure technology.
- Track and monitor energy and environmental data using sensors, reducing energy consumption by 44% in cooling energy and 27% in heating, said British creative agency WPP
- Cut carbon and travel by deploying, managing, and upgrading many assets via the cloud-based platform (and track savings via a dashboard)
- Cut electricity consumption by powering down inactive devices during quiet and off-business hours, and centrally track and power-up
- Save groundwater from harm and protect invaluable assets with wirelessly connected sensors that detect water, temperature, air quality, and more
- Safeguard people, places, things—and the environment—with smart cameras that guard against open doors that should be shut, leaching out cold or hot air, among other things
These moves into sustainability, like those laps around the track earlier this month, are only the start. Many are optimistic about these initial strides. In fact, 88% of CXOs believe that with immediate action, we can limit the worst effects of climate change.
We do, too.
