Category Archives: Sustainability
We view sustainability not just from an environmental perspective, but also business model viability.
Moving from anxiety to action: how the Earthshot prize is mobilising clean tech innovators
Around three-quarters of people in the UK and two-thirds of Americans consistently say that they [...]
How we developed the Purple Dragons Cloud Computing Carbon Footprint Index
One of the biggest issues in driving or supporting improvement of any kind is how [...]
Small but perfectly formed -how Crossflow Energy is disrupting wind power use
Unless you are a devotee of small providers of renewable energy solutions, you may never [...]
Getting to grips with climate change: how Amazon’s Climate Pledge could accelerate change
Earlier this month Mateo Dugand, EMEA Regional Lead for Sustainability at Amazon Web Services (AWS), [...]
Enhancing food security through analytics
Food security was defined at the World Food Summit in 1996 as a state in [...]
Feeding the world without costing the earth
When there is discussion about artificial intelligence (AI), it often focuses on apocalyptic scenarios, where [...]
Pros and cons of bitcoin, and the environmental impact
Over the last few years, bitcoin has increasingly hit the headlines. Some suggest that it [...]
From emit and compensate to never emit: Googles path to net zero carbon
As one of the biggest cloud computing industry participants, Google comes under a huge amount [...]
Combating climate change: are data centres and cloud computing providers doing enough?
The information technology (IT) industry is responsible for around 5% of worldwide total carbon emissions [...]
Is energy density holding back renewables progress to Net Zero?
Energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system per unit volume? [...]
Getting in tune with the seasons: why cycles matter
Living in cities as so many of us do, it is easy to lose touch [...]
Nine reasons we need International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Surely, you cry, we [...]
Re-thinking sustainability
What exactly do we mean by ‘sustainability’? It used to be clear: the focus was [...]
The rise and rise of sustainability reporting
It can sometimes seem as if we live in a throwaway world. We all want [...]
Green data centres are still work-in-progress
Environmental friendliness has become a bit less ‘cool’ recently, with governments around the world shying [...]
Social tools are re-shaping the organisation
It is logical to think that social tools might benefit an organisation. After all, they [...]
Can artificial intelligence deliver greener data centres?
Green data centres are perhaps best described as work in progress. But the drive towards [...]
Developing an effective people strategy
One of the most pressing issues facing Data Centre management today is ready access to [...]
High performance transformation with Scrum
The Scrum process is more commonly known as a software development approach that is designed to [...]
Data centre risk management
If you need to understand data centre risk management quickly, then look no further. We [...]
Aligning employer social profiles with overall company communications
As social media use matures, social media presence is becoming crucial to effective employer branding, [...]
How effective is your energy management?
We have been banging on about energy effectiveness for a while now. We explored how going green can [...]
Data centre energy effectiveness
Research has shown that energy costs can account for around 30% of the total infrastructure [...]
Looking after your data: the implications for data centres
Data privacy is always news. Whether photos of celebrities have been hacked from the cloud, [...]
Social business comes of age
It seems that social media management is finally coming of age in the business world. [...]
Towards climate-neutral data centres
Expanding as a data centre provider requires either a serious building project, or the acquisition [...]
Seeing the wood for the trees: how data visualisation can motivate your workforce
Have you heard the one about mushroom leaders? They keep their workforce in the dark [...]
The digital hunter-gatherer
People often comment on how much the world has changed in the last ten, or [...]
Social co-existence: innovation and philantrohy
We’ve written before about start-ups, and more recently about Cisco’s Entrepreneurs in Residence programme, which [...]
Seeing the wood for the trees: improving line of sight
It’s always been axiomatic that employees needed to know how they fit into the organisation’s [...]
Positioning brands in the collaborative economy
We have written before about the rise of the collaborative economy and the importance of reputation. [...]
Managing the remote workforce
As more and more companies are embracing remote working, managers are finding that they need [...]
Is your social presence leading to clearer line of sight?
Apple doesn’t bother with social media. It doesn’t need to. Its customers love it, and [...]
The coming reputation dashboard
There are few of us who would disagree that the online engagements have profoundly changed [...]
Digital partnerships: Driving CIO-CMO alignment
As more and more people engage with their suppliers in the digital, rather than the [...]
How does your dashboard glow?
The use of dashboards is a topic which we visit and revisit from time to [...]
The Inevitable tension between organic and planned growth
Most CIOs will relate to the tension between user demand-driven technology deployment, and top-down implementation [...]
The Web Index and the challenge of censorship
It’s by no means an easy task, which is perhaps why it has taken until [...]
Clay Shirky on Transparency in government
Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not [...]
HP and storage hypervisors
HP has a heritage of meeting storage demands on various platforms and with a choice [...]
Flexible sourcing
Flexible sourcing has been enjoying increasing attention from business leaders. From the early days of [...]
When AWS went down
Many businesses have woken up today to the reality that cloud providers too can fail. [...]
The line-of-sight journey
Translating firm goals into tangible results requires that employees not only comprehend the organization’s strategy, [...]
Book review: The Naked Corporation
As an analyst interpreting trends in the IT industry, corporate opacity was a common challenge [...]
Defining the Governance Agenda
Good governance creates a strong organisation by continuously steering it towards a vision and ensuring [...]
Can business and social responsibility co-exist?
“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a dynamic term steadily evolving thus escaping standard definition. Applied CSR [...]