Category Archives: Sustainability
We view sustainability not just from an environmental perspective, but also business model viability.
Sustainability meets accountability as ESG regulations align profits, purpose, and platforms
Sustainability is becoming essential as ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) regulations evolve. These rules now [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Can business and social responsibility co-exist?
An updated version of this article is here – Sustainability meets accountability as ESG regulations [...]