Data for sustainability
We help companies reach their sustainability targets and build a competitive advantage by integrating sustainability into their core business processes.
Our vision
As the world grapples with climate change, companies are setting ambitious goals to significantly reduce their environmental footprint.
Yet organisations often struggle to turn these commitments into action, because sustainability is not easily built into decision-making processes.
At the intersection of industry and data expertise, our team structures strategies and digital roadmaps that turn these commitments into tangible action.
We help companies reach their sustainability targets and build a competitive advantage by integrating sustainability into their core business processes.
Our offer
To best support our clients, Emerton Data addresses three key areas:
- Identifying the critical business processes and workflows where sustainability should become a decision-making factor to drive significant impact (carbon intensity, water and energy consumption, etc.).
- Identifying technology enablers, building data strategies and creating use-case roadmaps to transform the organisation.
- Implementing high-value use cases that deliver measurable value and impact.
Setting priorities and a digital pathway
Business decisions will increasingly need to balance traditional dimensions with their environmental impact. Translating strategic goals into an actionable, data-driven digital roadmap is complex, but essential to help every function and business make environmentally conscious decisions.
Drawing on its unique positioning, Emerton Group combines deep industry knowledge with data expertise to help clients turn their strategic ambitions into impact-driven digital roadmaps. Key activities include:
- identifying the business areas and processes to optimise or adapt to maximise both sustainability and business impact;
- defining a digital roadmap that uses data for sustainability;
- supporting the evolution of data governance needed for long-term success.
Identifying and federating critical data assets and models
Moving towards a sustainable operating model requires bringing operations and sustainability data together in cohesive environments, and extending access to partners and customers. We help clients identify the data sources their ambitions and roadmaps require, across a range of data and models:
- Operations data: ERP, MES, EHS, EMS, CRM, PLM, HRIS, IoT platforms, etc.
- Sustainability data: internal LCA and LCI repositories, supplier data, licensed ESG data and open secondary sources on environmental impact.
- Models: EEIO, LCA, environmental impact assessment, biogenic emissions models, material flow analysis and other models relevant to decision-making.
Available at the organisation’s most granular level, this new data asset can be used to simulate the total impact of business decisions.
Using the best technologies to improve sustainability
Emerton attracts top digital talent and deploys state-of-the-art technologies to drive sustainability initiatives. We use this expertise to identify the right technologies for data and use cases, including:
- automating carbon intensity calculations and LCA at scale, across supply chains, using operations data and AI;
- equipping business teams with AI-enabled applications that improve sourcing and industrial decisions in complex supply chains;
- assessing critical strategic decisions with advanced modelling capabilities;
- ESG data platforms that consolidate internal, external and modelled ESG data into a single foundation for climate and risk models.
Securing long-term success
Great technologies only succeed when users adopt them. Emerton Data relies on critical enablers to maximise adoption and long-term impact:
- UI design excellence: top-tier UI designers and proven methods create engaging, user-centric interfaces that improve the user experience and support adoption.
- Change management: proven frameworks and tools to identify, assess and address the challenges organisations face during transitions. Our approach focuses on explaining the rationale for change, fostering employee engagement and providing targeted training.
