The Sustainability Imperative

As organizations struggle to define a strategy that balances purpose and profit, opportunities are increasingly emerging to take the lead in sustainability initiatives. Front-line advances in areas such as net-zero emissions, AI-powered solutions for the underserved, precision agriculture, digital healthcare, and more are delivering business benefits, while simultaneously contributing to the realization of the UN’s 17 SDGs. We provide the expert thinking, debate, and guidance to help your organization reposition and transform in the era of sustainability.

Subscribe to Arthur D. Little's Sustainability Newsletter

Insight

Environmental intelligence (EI) is an effective combined use of data science, AI, and other digital technologies such as IoT to provide the meaningful insight needed to address these challenges and mitigate the effects of environmental change. This Advisor examines how EI can help in collecting and analyzing environmental data to understand the cause and impact of environmental changes and to predict potential environmental risks facing us.
Discover the role of business architecture in transitioning an organization into becoming a player in the sustainable economy, while concurrently meeting other essential business objectives.
How can you move toward developing a holistic, comprehensive green IT strategy in your enterprise? What AI-based platform is the State of California, LinkedIn, and even the rock band KISS using to verify IDs and prevent fraud? Find out in this edition of The Cutter Edge!
Green IT and green initiatives are now a key agenda for enterprises and governments and are driven by the benefits they offer and several ongoing developments, such as concerns about climate change, government regulations, and peer pressure and influence. This Advisor outlines the strategies and steps that will help you implement a Green IT approach in your enterprise.
This Advisor explores how business architecture stakeholder mapping can assist a healthy circular economy implementation by specifying the value stream scenarios where different stakeholders extract value propositions across a value cycle, enabling the cycle to start and be sustained.
How can you leverage blockchain and a new pool of gig economy entrepreneurs to craft and enable new winning business models? How does taking an architectural approach to sustainability initiatives improve your chances of success? Find out all this and more in the latest issue of The Cutter Edge.
More than a decade ago, Cutter Consortium introduced the concept of green IT in an Executive Report and outlined IT’s role in creating a sustainable environment. The topic has become all the more important and relevant today. In this Report, we provide an updated, holistic view of greening IT and how we can — and should — embrace IT to address the environmental challenges we face.
The accompanying Executive Report, an update to a previous Report, outlines IT’s environmental impacts, discusses three key facets of green IT, and shows how we can go green with our IT systems and applications. The Report highlights opportunities for IT-enabled solutions and assistance to better sustain and manage our environment and presents useful insights to help make smart green IT decisions.