SUSTAINABILITY
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Overview
Managing environmental, social and governance challenges in a digital world creates new C-level priorities. Leaders must run resource-productive supply chains and connect with customers more effectively than ever before. By focusing on sustainability as a means for value creation, business leaders can build trust and transparency, and create competitive advantage.
OUR CAPABILITIES
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Circular economy and resource effectiveness
Implement new circular business models, enabled by the use of digital technologies, while reducing waste and optimizing resource use. -
Trust, transparency and traceability
Build business purpose and risk mitigation, promote transparency to differentiate and engender trust in a digital connected world. -
Digital trust and responsibility
Understand the potential risks presented by digital, diagnose digital responsibility readiness and identify the best data ethics and privacy strategy.
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Sustainable Value Analytics
Combine analytics-driven insights with deep domain expertise to shape priorities and targets, quantify shared value potential, measure performance and impact of sustainability-led value initiatives across business and society.
Latest Thinking
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Steeling for disruption
Global steel producers must reinvent themselves as demand growth disappears. -
Sustaining competitiveness in a digital age: How trust can make or break the deal
Trust is vital in creating and destroying value—companies seeking digital transformation cannot afford to ignore it. -
Automotive's latest model: Redefining competitiveness through the circular economy
To sharpen competitiveness OEMs need to move beyond car sharing to gain the full value of the circular economy. -
The UN global compact—Accenture strategy CEO study
Agenda 2030: A window of opportunity -
The digital emperor has no clothes
As digital technologies expose organizations to more scrutiny, leadership strategy must include managing radical transparency. -
Waste to Wealth: Creating advantage in a circular economy
Waste to Wealth examines how the circular economy is disrupting the way we produce and consume products. -
Global eSustainability Initiative and Accenture Strategy joint report: #System Transformation
How digital solutions will drive progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals for the information and communication technology (ICT) sector -
The high stakes of low carbon: Why electric utilities need to change the game to survive
To sharpen their competitiveness, utilities need to harness low carbon business models enabled by digital. -
Corporate disruptors: How business is turning global challenges into opportunities
A new Accenture Strategy report shows sustainable development and business value are not mutually exclusive. -
Digital carbon disruptors: Speeding the journey to low carbon, high value business
Through low carbon business models that harness digital, companies can sharpen overall competitiveness. -
Low carbon, high stakes: Do you have the power to transform?
Five new business model pathways toward a low-carbon energy system -
Sustainability value management: Stronger metrics to drive differentiation and growth
Sustainability value management helps companies define benefits both for business and society. -
Gaining an edge: Growth, innovation and customer value from the circular economy
The circular economy is a departure from linear models, decoupling growth from natural resource consumption -
Walking the walk: Driving competitiveness through ethical supply chains
How sustainable supply chain operations can increase competitiveness through improved profit, risk and brand reputation.
Client Case Study
Leadership
"The circular economy could unlock US$4.5 trillion of growth by 2030. Breaking with today’s 'take, make, waste' business models creates a swift path to innovation, growth and competitiveness."
PETER LACY
Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, Sustainability
