AMR and the Environment

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-	[[AMR: Expected Increase in IT Spending Around Environmental Sustainability]]	+	*[[European Survey Puts the Environment High on the Business and IT Agenda (2006)]]
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-	Researchers expect increasing IT spend around environmental sustainability	+	[[Category:Summarised by MI]]
-	AMR Research—a leading business advisory firm focused on supply chain, enterprise applications, and next-generation infrastructure—recently conducted a survey of 200 businesses across Europe to discover their approaches to environmental sustainability practices. The study delivered fascinating results.	+	{{AMR-1 Sum}}
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-	• Environmental sustainability initiatives are a top of mind issue for many, if not all companies surveyed, commanding 16% of IT budgets in 2004 and growing to 21% of IT budgets in 2007. That’s 31% growth over that period. Interestingly, there is some disagreement between what IT thinks they are investing in and what the lines of business think they are spending, underscoring a lack of cohesiveness of the initiatives across organizations.	+
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-	• The five most important IT solutions or components for managing environmental initiatives are supply chain management, ERP, compliance management, financial management, and manufacturing/production operations.	+
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-	• It appears that many initiatives in this area have been done in response to pressures of regulatory compliance and that they have been implemented primarily on a local basis.	+
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-	• Environmental dashboards are considered useful by 92% of respondents with 72% of all respondents stating that Dashboards are either in place now or will be in the next 24 months.	+
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Current revision as of 09:43, 19 July 2007

• European Survey Puts the Environment High on the Business and IT Agenda (2006)

Summaries

European Survey Puts the Environment High on the Business and IT Agenda

Whereas surveys of corporate social responsibility in the USA usually show the environment ranking behind social programmes (such as education outreach), similar studies in Europe indicate the reverse. AMR discovered last year that European companies intended to spend 21% of their IT budget on environment-rlated initiatives. This spending can be expected to increase as more companies insist that their suppliers (and even customers) conform to their thinking on sustainability. Only a proactive approach will provide competitive advantage, given increased customer and legislative pressures to improve environmental performance.

But most companies still don't measure their effect on the environment until after the fact&mdashi.e. very few examine potential impact prior to their actions.

The five technology areas must useful for the management of environmental efforts are: supply chain management (SCM), ERP, compliance management, financials, and manufacturing/production operations. Underpinning this is the need for master data management, the so-called 'single version of the truth'. The enterprise dashboard is also very helpful.