Carbon Footprint Analysis Leads to Concrete Savings: Walkers Crisps

I’ll confess upfront that I’ve always been slightly dubious about the assertion that “sustainability is about making money”. After all, if it’s about making money, it’s something that companies should be doing anyway – it’s only when there’s a tradeoff between sustainability and money that there’s room for interesting debate about to what extent it should be one of the goals of the organization. However, as Diversey’s CEO Curt... [Read More...]

SAP’s Sustainability Dashboards

The SAP’s Sustainability Report web site provides a great example of how business intelligence can help with sustainability reporting and analysis. All public organizations will have to start providing this time of information in the future, and SAP BusinessObjects provides some great tools to do it with. Here are some of the Xcelsius dashboards that are provided as part of the report: Environment Carbon Footprint

SAP’s Collborative Sustainability Strategy

SAP recently announced its sustainability strategy, including aggressive carbon reduction targets, a new cross-functional sustainability organization, and sustainability solutions for customers. More information is available on SAP’s sustainability pages. What is Sustainability, Anyway? Sustainability means different things to different people — the UN Commission on Sustainable Development lists over 40 issues that it can cover, including... [Read More...]