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Companies are increasingly using digital platforms and smart editorial approaches to highlight their sustainability activity, the SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index shows. |
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Levi Strauss, financial company BBVA, Ebay, Danone and General Electric top the SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index 2012, an annual review analyzing how major companies use social media to communicate sustainability and corporate social responsibility. |
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In this article, journalist Heather Clancy provides insight on the Verdantix Report “Green Quadrant Environmental Management Software, Global, 2012”.
Enablon has emerged as one of the key application providers for forward-thinking businesses looking beyond compliance for ways energy and resource conservation can make them more competitive. |
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Enablon, among others, leads the environmental management software market, according to a new study from analyst firm Verdantix.
The three market leaders, including Enablon, have established market positions ahead of other suppliers because of the breadth of their environmental management functionality and regulatory coverage, Verdantix says |
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Putting sustainability measures in place can pay off if companies take a disciplined, data-based approach, experts say
That means analyzing data in a systematic way, and being methodical about prioritizing projects. Such an approach can expose deeper potential cost savings and revenue generation opportunities, according to a panel of experts experienced with helping companies link sustainability more explicitly to financial results.
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The Rio summit on its own can neither impose new rules and penalties nor can it initiate the transition to a new paradigm. One possible solution is to demonstrate the opportunity that sustainable development represents to generate environmental, social, and especially economic, benefits in the short term.
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A company’s supply chain generally controls 60 percent to 70 percent of its costs. Companies that manage their supply chains will perform better because they have lower costs, more flexible product cycles, and/or higher quality products. (…)
Most companies have built extensive supply chain software systems that they share with their suppliers. However, these tools often don’t cover the “soft” data that companies need to manage sustainability issues. A number of software and service companies have responded to this need. |
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According to the SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index, the number of companies in its index that use social media to communicate sustainability has more than doubled in the last year.
For many companies, social media does more than boost their sustainability profile, it is a necessary tool to manage their brand. |
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For the most part, environmental, health, and safety (EHS) software vendors have not jumped with both feet into the market for supporting clients’ supply-chain management initiatives.
However, for vendors, like Enablon (Chicago, IL), that have targeted large multinational corporations as their key client base, supply-chain management is the place to be. |
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Christopher Mines, vice president and research director at Forrester Research, provides insights on the carbon and energy management (ECEM) software market and points out challenges for buyers and suppliers. |
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Who are the key players tweeting to a better world? Better brands?
The just released,SMI -Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index, has been prepared specifically to provide key social media insight for Sustainability, CSR, internal comms, corporate communications and marketing professionals and the agencies that work with them. |
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Things continue to pop in the enterprise sustainability arena. Now, we’re seeing the emergence of enterprise social networking tools for furthering sustainability initiatives.
Enablon launched a social network platform called Wizness in an effort to respond to customer requests for industry-wide collaboration on sustainability issues. |
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Sustainability: Market increases focus on good corporate citizenship
Jessica Twentyman notes regulation is not the only force driving initiatives. Investors and customers want more information. Enablon and its customer, Centrica, are featured in this article discussing the importance of managing, reporting and communicating sustainability goals and achievements. |
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"In a world where Sustainability challenges are increasingly complex and interconnected, Wizness brings organizations and people together, whether they are competitors or partners, customers or investors, to share information and collaborate for the greater good," says Phil Tesler, Enablon co-founder and president, North America. |
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Sustainability software firm Enablon unveiled a social media tool this week. It's called Wizness, which Enablon bills as a platform for wise business.
Phil Tesler, Enablon's co-founder and North America president: "This is much more than a social network," he said. "It's a collaboration platform. It's there to enable collaboration between companies and one another, between companies and experts, and between individuals working at these companies." |
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Catherine White provides insights on topics discussed at the Sustainable Performance Forum held by Enablon. Among others: the ROI of Sustainability and Wizness, the “Wise Business” platform. |
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Enablon has launched Wizness, an online collaborative platform for solving sustainability business challenges, with 250 member companies already on board. |
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Pike Research is predicting that the North American market for carbon management software and services will be the world’s largest by 2013, at approximately $1.1 billion. |
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Major companies are generally satisfied with the accuracy and completeness of data in their sustainability performance management systems, but 39 percent say the systems are poorly integrated and 38 percent say it’s too hard to get the data they need, according to a report by Green Research.
The report said dissatisfaction with current systems could spell opportunity for vendors such as Enablon. |
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Green Research has released a study of the market for sustainability performance management systems. "Many sustainability leaders say it is too hard to get the data they need," says David Schatsky, principal analyst and founder of Green Research. "Companies need better integrated tools and more analytical firepower to help drive decisions." |
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While much has been written about carbon management (…), I've always been aware of the bigger picture that carbon is just one of many - depending on the company, it can be 30 or more - environmental, compliance and safety processes that large companies have to track across the many countries of their operations.
At last week's Enablon user conference in Chicago, I got the opportunity to better understand how large companies manage those processes, especially around risk, regulations and transparency requirements. |
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As economic recovery worldwide begins to take hold, issues of sustainability in general, and carbon management specifically, that were temporarily pushed out of the frame, are now back in the picture. |
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The integration of risk management and sustainability management will become the new norm, allowing companies to manage and mitigate risks with a multidimensional view that links operations, finance and image. |
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Complying with governmental regulations is a time-consuming task with lots of paperwork and plenty of manual workarounds. Still another layer of knowledge is necessary to ensure suppliers are in compliance with certain standards.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) systems, which evolved out of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, address these compliance issues—plus quality, policy, and procedure management. GRC solutions assist users with internal audits and self-assessment tools, and building risk profiles for suppliers. |
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