A Roadmap for Your Sustainable Business
We have made a lot of progress with sustainability in the last few years in our businesses, but many are still in the nascent phase of sustainability. We are now discovering that while many organizations have very good intentions these days, the actions don’t always match the intent.
This month there were three different studies released that address sustainability in businesses. 451 Research, a part of S&P Market Intelligence, released a paper that revealed a perception-versus-reality dilemma with enterprise organizations believing their sustainability programs are more advanced than they actually are.
Here we see the main drivers of sustainability is business value and firms start with measuring energy usage then expand into other sustainability metrics and tools. This research has discovered the greatest challenges in the sustainability journey are optimizing energy usage, obtaining consistent data and metrics, and lacking skilled staff.
Setting aside all these reports, we need to take a closer look at the skilled staff point. This is truly something that continues to ring loud in many organizations. It is clearly something we need to take even more seriously if we ever want to get to the targets businesses are espousing. So, it’s not surprising then that the key takeaway is that analysts are determining that many enterprises believe they are further along in their sustainability journey than they actually are.