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<h3>IDC's Sustainability Framework</h3> <p class="fs-large">The Framework for our approach encompasses the upstream sustainability impact of IT and operations (e.g., impact assessments, vendor indices), downstream aspects tied to sustainable products and services (e.g., end-user surveys, IDC MarketScapes), and strategic approaches toward selling and buying sustainable and sustainability-enabling technology.</p> <button data-link="secondary" data-modal-trigger="chart-description"> <small><span class="show-for-sr">Sustainability Framework </span>Diagram Description</small> </button> </div> </figcaption> </figure> <div data-modal="chart-description" data-modal-sharable data-modal-width="800" aria-label="Sustainability Framework diagram description"> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x grid-margin-y"> <div class="cell"> <div class="cell-text"> <h2>Sustainability Framework</h2> <p>A circular diagram. At the center of the circle is the text, "Sustainable Strategies and Technologies," with three wedge-shaped curved blocks above labeled “Environmental, Social and Governance” and three longer curved blocks in parallel below labeled “Philanthropy, Materiality, and Purpose, Mission, Vision”. There is one outer circle broken into 3 sections labeled “Sustainable Operations, Sustainable Products and Services, and Sustainable Business Strategies”.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div data-tabs-panel> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x grid-margin-y"> <div class="cell"> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x grid-margin-y text-center"> <div class="cell medium-6 large-auto"> <div class="cell-text align-middle"> <h3>Laggards</h3> <h4>Customer Demand</h4> <i class="fc-blue" data-icon="people-chat" data-icon-size="xxl"></i> <p>The pull effect triggered by customer demand and their requirements.</p> </div> </div> <div class="cell medium-6 large-auto"> <div class="cell-text align-middle"> <h3>Slow Adopters</h3> <h4>Efficiencies and cost savings</h4> <i class="fc-blue" data-icon="chart-bar-dollar-increase" data-icon-size="xxl"></i> <p>Improved profitability through greater efficiency and cost reduction</p> </div> </div> <div class="cell medium-6 large-auto"> <div class="cell-text align-middle"> <h3>Mainstreamers</h3> <h4>Value creation and brand reputation</h4> <i class="fc-blue" data-icon="trademark" data-icon-size="xxl"></i> <p>Business factors (i.e., value creation via sustainable products, operational efficiency, and brand reputation)</p> </div> </div> <div class="cell medium-6 large-auto"> <div class="cell-text align-middle"> <h3>Frontrunners</h3> <h4>Supply chain and access to capital</h4> <i class="fc-blue" data-icon="topic-impact-guide" data-icon-size="xxl"></i> <p>Sustainability aligned and integrated in the supply chain, lowering cost of capital</p> </div> </div> <div class="cell medium-6 large-auto"> <div class="cell-text align-middle"> <h3>Visionaries</h3> <h4>Business value via sustainable products</h4> <i class="fc-blue" data-icon="diamond-shine" data-icon-size="xxl"></i> <p>Sustainable products and services as a source of revenue, hire & retain, mitigation of business risks</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cell"> <div class="cell-text"> <h3>IDC Sustainability Readiness Framework and Maturity Index</h3> <ul class="fs-large"> <li>Identify pain points, IT product and services demand, budgets and buyers by maturity segment</li> <li>Let customers assess their maturity and readiness through customized tools to drive demand for your solutions</li> <li><a data-link="secondary" href="/getdoc.jsp?containerId=EUR251290223&pageType=PRINTFRIENDLY">Access IDC’s Framework for free</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="cell"> <div class="cell-text"> <h3>IDC helps organizations:</h3> <ul class="fs-large"> <li>Understand the competitive landscape and market size for sustainable and sustainability-enabling IT products and services through forecasts, perception data, and vendor assessments.</li> <li>Gain insight on IT buyer demand and vendor perception through global end-user surveys that focus on different industries, personas/functions, and geographies.</li> <li>Create effective sales enablement and messaging around the sustainability related impact of their technologies and professional services, e.g., through ESG business value studies and economic impact models/functions, and geographies.</li> <li>Assess maturity levels of organizational approaches and IT solutions related to sustainable transformation.</li> <li>Create effective sustainable business and IT strategies to address a changing regulatory environment, customer and consumer demand, and investor pressure.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-root"> <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x grid-margin-y"> <div class="cell"> <div class="cell-text"> <h2>Related Resources</h2> <p class="fs-large">For more examples of actionable insights from IDC analysts visit our <a href="/resource-center" data-link="secondary">Resource Center</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div data-clickable class="cell medium-6"> <div class="cell-text"> <h3>Driving Business Value Through 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RELEASE<span class="show-for-sr"> Global Spending on Purpose-built Sustainability Services Will Reach $65 Billion in 2027</span></a> </div> </div> <div data-clickable class="cell medium-6"> <div class="cell-text"> <h3>Getting Ready for ESG Reporting: Are You Afraid of CSRD?</h3> <a href="https://blog-idceurope.com/getting-ready-for-esg-reporting-are-you-afraid-of-csrd/" data-link="primary" data-icon-before="arrow-head">READ BLOG<span class="show-for-sr"> Getting Ready for ESG Reporting: Are You Afraid of CSRD?</span></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid-root"> <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-x grid-margin-x grid-margin-y"> <div class="cell"> <div class="cell-text"> <h2>IDC's Sustainability Offerings</h2> <p class="fs-large">Learn more about sustainability from our experts.</p> </div> </div> <div class="cell large-8"> <div class="cell-text"> <h3>Research Programs</h3> <p>IDC’s sustainability research offers thought leadership and advice on key challenges 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