Cisco by SAS for Sustainability Management in the global standardization of management
Economist Intelligence Unit (Economist Intelligence Unit) conducted a new survey of "globalization sustainable development", on the globalization of the world's major enterprises or regional approach to address sustainable development issues, has done a thorough analysis of preference. SAS global business leaders by the sponsors of the survey was launched on the global 226 top management personnel to do an online survey and interviews with Cisco, HSBC, Lenovo, Vodafone and World Wildlife Fund and other institutions.
"Global multinational with a strong sense of social responsibility, but also continuously improve the tracking and reporting on performance," SAS solutions for sustainable development, market manager Alyssa Farrell said. "With the global emissions change from voluntary to mandatory, the problem becomes 'How do we integrate sustainable development into the global operations?'" Survey, management and sustainable development affect revenues financial strength of unity is the real solution.
Survey found a trend: more and more companies focus on sustainable development of its global nature. Survey shows that 60% of the company currently is planning the management of sustainable development of global change from regional inclinations. However, according to reports in the Cisco case, even if the company has set a long-term goal of globalization, we must first solve the local real problems from the start, so that the global sustainable development plan to be successful. As businesses in accepting and implementing various methods of different difficulties, thus, resulting in business success and competitive awareness of the benefits are different.
Cisco has recently set a goal: end 2012, global greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 25%, and signed a worldwide adoption of sustainable development management solutions, SAS (SAS for Sustainability Management) of the multi-year agreement. In addition to reducing their carbon emissions in addition, Cisco also hopes to increase energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, modeling and forecasting capabilities, in order to bring tangible benefits to our customers.
"Cisco is working with SAS to deploy a web-based environmental management and the 21st century model," Cisco Cisco, vice chairman and global eco-strategy and government affairs, said Laura Ipsen, senior vice president. "Through this intelligent system based on Internet protocol, we can better on Cisco in global greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and management. In addition, through this system, we can prove the network to customers in helping them achieve their environmental and the importance of operational goals, especially in the current global enterprises are best efforts to improve their IT investment value of the context, even more so. "
The survey also developed and developing countries to achieve sustainable development of methods to do the assessment of these countries, the different stakeholders on the impact of the global development of the project is very large. Enterprises in different countries to achieve sustainable development depends on how they approach social and environmental objectives and economic objectives to achieve reunification.
SAS to help enterprises solve the global sustainable development, there is a common disorder - difficult in a global data collection and supervision. Sustainable development management solutions, SAS (SAS for Sustainability Management) will be independent of the technology components integrated to a unified system, it can cross shaft enterprise organizations, different computing platforms and specific tools to allow enterprises in depth from a new perspective insight into their situation, to promote business value of upgrading.
SAS for the industrial market a turnkey solution to address financial services, life sciences, health care, retail, manufacturing and other industry issues. SAS targeted business solutions support enterprise intelligence, customer intelligence, financial intelligence, supply chain intelligence and other functions.
About the survey
Polled 226 senior corporate executives, 36% from Western Europe, 28% from North Africa, 22% from the Asia-Pacific region, 14% from other countries and regions worldwide. They come from 19 different industries were the top three industries: financial services, professional services and manufacturing. 55% of the respondents of the business revenues of 5 billion U.S. dollars. Among the respondents, 51% of them are members of the Board, CEO and other C-level executives (COO, CFO, CIO, etc.). The remaining 49%, respectively, senior vice president and other senior management.
On the Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit The Economist Group, the UK (company publication of "The Economist") of the business information sector. It has more than 650 of the world experts and writers, more than 200 countries on the global political, economic and commercial situation, and continuous assessment and prediction. As the world's leading information providers, Economist Intelligence Unit on the global market trends and business strategies to make timely, reliable and impartial analysis to help decision-makers worldwide make better business decisions.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services provider, the market is the largest independent business intelligence vendors. Through innovative business intelligence platform to support business applications, SAS helps more than 45,000 customers better, faster decision-making, so as to enhance performance, deliver value. Since 1976, SAS has been to provide customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW?. www.sas.com / china