Sustainability

In an age of radically changing climatic conditions, the associated immediate effects and emerging risks for people around the globe, in a time of growing conflict and social unrest, there is no way around a transformation to a more sustainable way of living and doing business.

We support the development of sustainability goals, strategies, roles and measures, and help with the measurement and reporting of results. Fostering a sustainability transformation ensures that organizations can deliver long-term economic benefits like competitive advantages or greater resilience while addressing environmental and social challenges.

Very few sustainability initiatives can manage without technology and can be implemented without the support of corporate IT. At the same time, digitalization is still completely underestimated as a positive driver for sustainability.

In many organizations, sustainability and digitalization initiatives are still viewed completely separately. Twin transformation strategies bring both worlds together, resolve conflicting goals and analyze where sustainability and digitalization can mutually benefit each other. This requires close cooperation between IT and sustainability initiatives within the company.

Our experts in the Sustainability & Technology cluster work precisely at this interface, providing support as translators, mediators or project managers between IT, sustainability management, management and the specialist departments.

We support the integration of sustainability and digitalization strategy, so that the company does not get lost in compliance-only projects (without added value for the organization’s value chain). Therefore, it is important to identify Business Cases for Sustainability that realize economic success through an intelligent design of (mainly) voluntary environmental and social management and activities.