Supporting Sustainability Decisions in Large Organisations

Stefan, David B.; Letier, Emmanuel

doi:10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.41

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“…The results show that in order to achieve a major harmonization and integration, aspects such as data standardization, data connectivity, data accessibility and data integration with external applications must be considered. These results contribute to ICT for sustainability and sustainable decision support systems studies [22][23] [24], identifying also concrete information systems properties required by real users of environmental information.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The role of interoperability in sustainable decisions: the case of CDP

Mora-Rodriguez¹,

Preist²

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-Climate change, pollution, deforestation and water scarcity are important problems that human activities provoke. Business decisions and actions are the major causes of environmental degradation. Decisions based on broader aspects than financial ones are required to bring solutions to these environmental challenges. For that purpose, businesses need a transformation in their management and operations. The information is critical to ensure the decision-making process, in this study we present the corporate reporting ecosystem that businesses face today. The opportunities and pending challenges that this scenario of information signifies, and the role that the interoperability, understood as the ability to exchange and use information given a heterogeneous scenario of organisations and information, could play to achieve the business transformation, in the light of the European Framework for Interoperability (European Commission, 2015), are explored. CDP (formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project) is the relevant case studied, as it is one of the most important environmental reporting initiatives in the world. In particular, we explore the role of interoperability in CDP through interviews with 17 CDP members.These respondents being a set of companies and their stakeholders, including investors, governments, scholars and NGOs. As a conclusion, we confirm that (1) interoperability has a role to play to empower more environmental actions in businesses; (2) specific characteristics of interoperability are demanded in legal, organisational, semantic and technical levels in order to consider environmental information in decisions; (3) the need for ICT solutions to tackle interoperability challenges is mainly required in the areas of data standardization, data connectivity and data integration with applications and processes.

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“…However, challenges arise to take advantage of that ecosystem such as the lack of software systems to support sustainable decisions [22]. Several authors point out the role of interoperability as an enabler [5][6] [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of interoperability in sustainable decisions: the case of CDP

Mora-Rodriguez¹,

Preist²

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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“…Examples of research that considers smarter cities and energy infrastructures includes understanding how to manage smart cities [3], decision making in organisations [4] and the challenges of living in situations where energy supply and infrastructure is not guaranteed [5]. Work to develop new taxonomies and frameworks have considered a framework for tackling environmental complexity [6] how to develop sustainable computing and catalyse change at scale, and a framework for assessing future scenarios [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

Shifting the maturity needle of ICT for Sustainability

Mann¹,

Bates²,

Maher³

EPiC Series in Computing

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The ubiquity of ICT means the potential of ICT4S covers a broad range of sustainability topics and application domains. However, ICT4S research can be ill positioned with regard to the complexity of transforming society in such a way that people and environmental ecologies can coexist in a sustainable system. The danger is that ICT4S becomes partitioned into a small subset of sustainability and using a limited set of the levers at our disposal. Grounded in the Mann-Bates maturity scale for sustainability this paper performs an analysis of the ICT4S conference corpus to measure how mature the research is in our field with regard to sustainability. Based on this analysis we identify areas in which the ICT4S community can begin to shift the maturity of research in order to promote sustainable futures. By applying the Transformation Mindset our article demonstrates through a series of illustrative how ICT4S can apply this mindset to shift ICT4S research towards more sustainable trajectories. This is an essential first step in taking stock, highlighting shortcomings and identifying opportunities in ICT for sustainability.

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“…Data-driven analytics (e.g. Spatial Analytics [49,34]) can be used to develop data driven models, decision support tools [11,50], counter factual futures and scenarios that are useful tools in presenting information to policy makers (cf. [4,51]).…”

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“…52), pp. [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67] Parcels are transported using freight transport vehicles such as trucks, lorries and vans, making up around 16% of total road vehicle activity in urban environments in the UK [3]. Light goods vehicles (LGVs)…”

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ICT for Sustainable Last-Mile Logistics: Data, People and Parcels

Bates¹,

Friday²,

Allen³

et al.

EPiC Series in Computing

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In this paper we present a vision of how ICT can be leveraged to help combat the impact on pollution, congestion and carbon emissions contributed by the parcel delivery sector. This is timely given annual growth in parcel deliveries, especially same-day deliveries, and the need to inform initiatives to clean up our cities such as the sales ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles in the UK by 2040. Our insights are informed by research on parcel logistics in Central London, leveraging a data set of parcel manifests spanning 6 months. To understand the impact of growing e-commerce trends on parcel deliveries we provide a mixed methods case study leveraging data-driven analysis and qualitative fieldwork to demonstrate how ICT can uncover the impact of parcel deliveries on delivery drivers and their delivery rounds during seasonal deliveries (or "the silly season"). We finish by discussing key opportunities for intervention and further research in ICT4S and co-created Smart Cities, connecting our findings with existing research and data as a call to the ICT4S community to help tackle the growth in carbon emissions, pollution and congestion linked to parcel deliveries.

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Supporting Sustainability Decisions in Large Organisations

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

The role of interoperability in sustainable decisions: the case of CDP

The role of interoperability in sustainable decisions: the case of CDP

Shifting the maturity needle of ICT for Sustainability

ICT for Sustainable Last-Mile Logistics: Data, People and Parcels

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