AMR and the Environment
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AMR: Expected Increase in IT Spending Around Environmental Sustainability
Researchers expect increasing IT spend around environmental sustainability
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.
• 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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Screen Illustration: Technology spend for environmental initiatives—percentage of IT budget
• 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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Screen Illustration: Usefulness of technology solutions for managing environmental initiatives.
• 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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Screen Illustration: Scale of environmental initiatives.
• 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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