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BEYOND MANAGEMENT BY SPREADSHEET
There are two major influences pressuring companies to take a closer look at their operations. Organizations have to redefine their core operational needs to adapt to the scarcity of financial resources and the fragility of our energy supply. Businesses are being reassessed to evaluate their natural resource usage, climate change impact and sustainability.
INSIGHTS SUMMARY
Two powerful forces are currently pushing companies to take a closer look at their core operational needs and both involve an element of scarcity. Financial resources are being squeezed and priorities realigned as the brutal economic recession causes investors to reassess, stakeholders to become more demanding, and management to focus on operational efficiency.
Additionally, the fragility of our energy supply is coming under increasing question. Organizations that look at their carbon footprint gain better insight of their company’s natural resource usage, climate change impact, and their enterprise’s
“The complex requirements of thorough carbon analysis make reliance on a typical spreadsheet approach to data gathering truly painful.”
As executives become increasingly aware of greenhouse gas monitoring challenges, they come to the troubling realization that they simply cannot plan for nor manage all of the components without an adequate enterprise system in place. When initially considering greenhouse gas management, a company is faced with a myriad of questions including:
- How do they gather sustainability-related information?
- Is this information detailed enough, timely and actionable?
- Can they base their important decisions on this information?
- And who is responsible collection, aggregation and dissemination?
Crawling, Walking, or Running
Most organizations are crawling when it comes to enterprise sustainability. Management teams are beginning to educate themselves, starting to understand various policies and procedures, and coming to terms with their current reporting requirements. Some companies are walking toward sustainability. They have established their current position, created a baseline and inventory, and are walking as they try to gather information through a variety of manual processes.
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