INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE POWERED BY THE DCA to do and every choice we make as a business is to be as data informed as possible . We want to surface data at every decision point – the right data at the right time to the right person , when it matters most ,” said Steve McCrystal , Unilever .
Sustainability enabled
I ’ m sure at some point you asked , ‘ what does this have to do with sustainability ?’ The Third Age is not the age of sustainability , however , it ’ s the age where the CIO has the ability to impact sustainability . As IT becomes part of daily business operation and delivery , it embeds itself in every business activity .
Thus , it becomes possible to conduct activity based environmental accounting using data that is already being collected and used for activity based performance and monitoring .
The Third Age creates the right environment for data-based decisionmaking , data-based reporting , databased accounting – hence CO 2 e accounting – benchmarking and auditing and so on .
Conclusions , caveats and calls to action
I appreciate that I have taken many liberties in summarising IT transformations into three distinct ages . In reality , enterprise IT has and will continue to evolve at an uneven pace . I also acknowledge that I use the term ‘ CIO ’ as though it had a common job description . CIO roles vary more than any other C-suite role and often include partially or wholly , the role of the CTO .
Nonetheless I think the argument carries that a ) as enterprise IT matures , it embeds IT further into the business and b ) the further embedded , the exponentially easier it is to measure , track , reduce , report and improve enterprise sustainability performance . �
CIOs will become the ‘ Chief Operating Officer of Technology ’ and assume leadership roles in strategy development and execution .
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