Corporate Sustainability

Awareness is steadily growing in the business community about the increasing environmental and social responsibilities that companies are being expected to bear. Given this growing level of realization, the development of corporate sustainability practices is becoming a must for any company- especially those genuinely committed to engaging thoroughly with this new set of issues on a long term strategic basis as opposed to fiddling at the margins and creating short terms measures to give the appearance of "Greening" their operations.

Consider the following issues in relation to your company:

• Have company wide performance targets been set in away which aligns profit, social and environmental goals in a win-win-win outcome?
• Are third party environmental and corporate responsibility groups actively working with you to achieve mutually beneficial goals or are you constantly locked in battle?
• Do you have defined indicators and metrics for judging corporate social and environmental responsibility performance?

No? Then gaining some third party insight into your situation may be useful.

While no single advisor can make a corporation into a sustaining entity (as this is a process of change and for that to occur the organisation must want to change itself) our domain experts at Innodev can help reveal the path ahead by providing the latest knowledge about best-practice corporate sustainability policies and practices.

As advisors they engage at all levels of management up to board level to provide a comprehensive snapshot of where the company currently sits on a globally ranked environmental, social and ethical scale. Having established this baseline the process of deciding what strategic direction to head in can begin.

Green IT.

When it comes to start implementing specific sustainability policies great place to begin in a technology centric is often the IT operations as this will often be one of the most energy dense areas of the company.

Consider the following issues in relation to your company:

• Are you aware of all the hidden environmental and operational costs associated with every $1 of expenditure on data centre infrastructure?
• Do future IT expansion plans include the cost of powering, cooling and environmentally sound decommissioning in their growth forecasts?
• Are you aware of what industry best practice is for management of data centre efficiency?