IBM's Intelligent Sustainable Enterprise

Many leaders from various industries and geographies indicate that the emerging sustainable economy will be the biggest economic game changer in the next two decades. Last week, I attended West Coast Green 2010 conference in San Francisco and learned about IBM’s announcements and recent initiatives: the new Smart Energy-Management and Sustainability Solutions for the enterprise.

Smarter Buildings/Sustainability Solutions (courtesy of IBM)

The new technological offerings address energy efficiency and sustainable buildings in commercial settings and are part of IBM’s expanding collection of solutions that are designed for creating smarter urban infrastructures.

IBM’s sustainability offerings are based on homegrown solutions that were developed internally to manage the corporation’s environmental responsibility. Then, IBM expanded their learnings, strategies and solutions to alliances as well as customers.

IBM has been focusing on making its existing products, services and processes more efficient and also on developing innovations that drive economic and operational improvements through intelligent systems. The corporation’s broader approach of sustainability addresses the fundamentals of an intelligent urban infrastructure and takes into consideration water, smart grid, transportation, waste, carbon emissions, and buildings.

In early 2010 IBM developed several collaborative and interactive forums, that bring together leaders from a wide spectrum of industries, in the U.S. and globally. The forums address key drivers, challenges and market opportunities in the green economy. The forums encompass Green IT, Energy Efficiency Infrastructure, Sustainable Operations, Smarter Cities/transportation, Environmental Impact of the workplace/Employee behavior, and Goals/Performance/Metrics, which also addresses regulation and value-chain mapping.

To read about my exclusive interview with Mr. Rich Lechner, VP of Energy and Environment at IBM, click here.

To read more about IBM’s solutions, check the following links:
1. Energy, the environment and IBM

2. IBM announcements on October 1, 2010 at West Coast Green 2010 conference