The Gartner Sustainability Opportunities, Risks and Technologies Survey showed that nine out of 10 business leaders that responded find digital technology essential to improving the impact of sustainability and increasing sustainability maturity in their organizations.

We introduce manufacturing CIOs to six initiatives through which digital frameworks can accelerate progress toward operational sustainability.

These six initiatives are grouped under the following three recommended actions:

  1. Advance corporate sustainability strategies
  2. Enable sustainable operations
  3. Deliver on sustainability commitments

Manufacturing CIOs can leverage their ongoing digital initiatives or introduce a few selected, high-priority and actionable activities to achieve these sustainability action.