Technology Forecast

Overview

This quarterly journal looks at building sustainable companies.

This issue of Technology Forecast explores how sustainability can become an integral part of doing business and contribute to corporate reputation and financial results.

The first article, "Sustainability: Moving from compliance to leadership," on page 06, examines sustainability as an embedded enterprise process, driven by metrics and the technology to collect and share them. The second article, "Closing the loop on sustainability information," on page 32, looks at software available now to collect and distribute data to help employees make decisions that weigh the environmental, social, and economic impacts of operations. The third article, "The CIO's next leadership opportunity: Sustainability," on page 56, examines steps the IT executive can take to move the enterprise forward.

This issue also includes interviews with executives at enterprises that are leading the practice of embedding sustainability or creating the next generation of solutions necessary to do so.