SUSTAINABILITY
48 can also provide a positive impact with regard to climate change and sustainability . “ It ’ s an important area of focus for Anthesis ,” admits Crewe . “ We not only help organisations understand their energy consumption at a micro level , with the data platforms we deploy we also become very intuitive around what a building , project or operation should be doing via self-learning within those environments . People can be quite blasé about data but it ’ s a vital part of business transformation and understanding your supply chain ’ s end-toend commodity needs ( from materiality to the environment and the social governance relating to a product ) to help businesses make the right decisions both financially and environmentally . The cloud is critical here … Data that ’ s easily accessible will drive efficiency and awareness at speed and at scale .” Once just a word used as part of a CSR plan , Crewe believes sustainability is now unequivocally mainstream , having become a critical commercial aspect of any organisation . “ Once they understand what sustainability means for them it can inform business decisions and have a massive impact ,” he
Paul Crewe , CSO , Anthesis
AUGUST 2019