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Sustainable Business Systems, Part 3: Differentiating Sustainable Solutions by Functional Domain
25 October 2010
 
Stephen Stokes  

Maximized sustainable corporate performance requires not just information enabled business process but clear linkages between key sustainable business functions and related value-adding activities.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • 1.0 Quantifying Sustainability
    • 2.0 Functional Domains of Sustainability Software
      • 2.1 Sustainability Performance Management
      • 2.2 Sustainable Supply Chain and Product Assessment Tools
      • 2.3 Green IT
      • 2.4 Information Reporting Platforms
      • 2.5 Energy Management, Automation, Efficiency and Advanced Metering
      • 2.6 Environment, Health and Safety
      • 2.7 Sustainable Governance and Risk
    • 3.0 Mapping Vendor Sustainability Applications to Functional Domains
      • 3.1 The Lay of the Land: How Vendors Map to the Sustainable Business Functional Domains
      • 3.2 The Response of Major Enterprise Vendors to the Sustainability Opportunity
      • 3.3 The Startups and the Migrants From Adjacent Software Spaces
      • 3.4 The Future Gorilla in the Midst?
    • 4.0 The Outlook for the Future Development of the Ecosystem
      • 4.1 Diversification Away from Simple Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) tools — Searching for Weapons of Mass Deduction
      • 4.2 Focus on Product Differentiation
      • 4.3 Large Vendor Momentum and Market Consolidation
      • 4.4 Further Emergence and Relevance of Sustainable Business Services
      • 4.5 Migration From Low to Higher Levels of Sustainable Business Value and Sustainable Business Intelligence
      • 4.6 Beyond Operational Boundaries — Supply Chains and Products
    • 5.0 Bottom Line — Hot, Flat and Crowded, but Hopefully Also Data Convergent, IP Addressable and Sustainably Intelligent
  • Recommended Reading
Figures
Figure 1.
Gartner's Sustainable Solution Framework Linking Strategy, Time Domain and Business Value
Figure 2.
Seven Key Functional Subdomains of Sustainability Software Solutions
Figure 3.
Mapping of Selected Software Vendor Applications to Gartner's Sustainable Business Solution Subdomains
Figure 4.
Mapping of Selected Software Vendor Applications to Gartner's Sustainable Business Solution Subdomains
Figure 5.
Mapping of Selected Software Vendor Applications to Gartner's Sustainable Business Solution Subdomains
Figure 6.
Top Energy Efficiency Priorities Identified by a Recent Survey of U.S. Manufacturers




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