Driving Sustainability With AI
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.
PMI recently published a new report on sustainability and AI, focusing on the importance of integrating the two concepts together. I found it fascinating, and it shows just how much artificial intelligence can contribute to sustainability—and how those organizations that are embracing AI are delivering better sustainability performances.
There are many aspects of that report that I could write about, but I want to focus on something that I believe to be critically important—and that hasn’t received as much attention as it deserves. That’s the idea of energy management and sustainability.
That might sound like an odd statement when you read the report. It shows that energy management is one of the leading areas of focus, with 25% of organizations using AI for real-time energy consumption monitoring and 22% using it for carbon footprint tracking. (And that focus has the most significant current impact on sustainability, as shown by the graphic on page 15 of PMI’s report.)
But here’s my logic. I’ll be pragmatic and ignore the carbon footprint aspect, as not every industry or geographic region is concerned about that. (They should be, and increasingly regulations are requiring them to be, but there’s still work to be done.) But for now, let’s just focus on energy consumption monitoring. After all, I’m pretty sure …
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