Cloud and as a service IT hold the key to creating a truly circular economy
April 5, 2015
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Christian Lanng.
The last few decades have seen a huge amount of effort and resources poured in to sustainability and corporate responsibility initiatives. Despite the valuable intentions, many have struggled to make a real difference, or at least on the required scale. This is no-one’s fault in particular, but because production has outstripped planetary boundaries and the environment is contending with mass-scale pollution.
But why is this? Succinctly put: “Companies can’t be sustainable in an unsustainable society.” The idea of a sharing economy was borne out of a need to rectify this situation. It is a system built around the sharing of human and physical resources and there are hundreds of compelling new businesses tapping into this idea…
The likes of Uber, AirBnB, Lyft, and Kickstarter, are transforming how goods and services are concepted, created, procured, and sold – and are in fact, changing the whole distribution model…
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