SOMERS, NY -- A new IBM consulting offering can help clients lower their environmental impact, increase efficiency and reduce costs by applying Lean Six Sigma principles to energy and water usage throughout their operations.
IBM's Green Sigma(TM) consulting offering is based on Lean Six Sigma, a business strategy for carefully analyzing operations to improve overall efficiency, lower costs, increase quality, and add, change or eliminate activities and processes to improve overall performance.
IBM's own conservation efforts have saved 4.6 billion kWh of electricity and $310 million in costs, and avoided over three million metric tons of CO2 emissions since 1990. The company's work-at-home program for employees saves roughly eight million gallons of gasoline annually.
Combining IBM's experience with energy efficiency and carbon reduction, measurement and management dashboards, Lean Six Sigma processes and corporate social responsibility consulting, Green Sigma(TM) allows clients to apply this strategy to their operations and environmental practices to:
--manage and reduce carbon output and water inefficiencies;
--reduce energy and water usage, and associated costs;
--use advanced analytical techniques to establish ongoing carbon footprint and water management practices;
--increase profit through activities such as carbon trading.
An IBM global CSR survey of more than 250 c-suite executives showed that 68 percent of them already are focusing on CSR activities to create new revenue streams, and 54 percent believe CSR gives them a competitive advantage. Additionally, IBM's biennial global survey of more than 1,100 CEOs showed that the majority of them plan to increase their investments in CSR by 25 percent over the next three years.
IBM-CSR Study
www.ibm.com/gbs/csrstudy
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