Digital Maturity Assessment 2024 – Section Sixteen
Most Digital Management Groups are Aware of Needing to Operate Sustainably
On average, participating organisations have made satisfactory progress in terms of managing their environmental impact using digital tools and especially in support of optimising their consumption of energy and supplies.
[A bar chart showing aggregated responses to questions about how organisations manage the environmental impact of digital operations and how they use digital solutions to managing their overall impact.]
Optimising staff and service user travel digitally has also improved, along with capabilities to support their sustainable transport choices.
The least mature indicators for the Climate Emergency and Sustainability topic in 2024 concerned the digital management of green space and digitally managing organisational Climate Change Risk Assessments.
Managing sustainability and climate impact has become a routine aspect of organisational management over the last decade or so; as organisations become mote digitally mature, leadership should take care to embed digital sustainability into organisations’ leadership culture and practices.
Implementing digital sustainability is crucial due to the nature of the issue it addresses. Unlike other areas influencing organisational operations, sustainability and climate emergency require immediate, significant action from every organisation rather than gradual improvements toward efficiency.