Digital Sustainability

Using Technology for Lasting Impact and Resilience
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-3986-2515-0
Verlag: Kogan Page Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Digital transformation is the linchpin of a sustainable and resilient future. Adapt, innovate and thrive in the face of disruption by integrating advanced technologies and sustainable practices with this essential guide.

Today's business leaders are navigating uncharted waters, tasked with balancing profitability, stakeholder expectations and the urgent need to address global sustainability challenges. While digital technologies are revolutionizing industries, many leaders remain unprepared to harness their full potential for sustainable impact. Digital Sustainability fills this critical gap by exploring how digital transformation can be a powerful enabler of sustainability. It goes beyond the buzzwords of ESG and DEI to offer strategies for integrating digital tools and systems into sustainable business practices.

Covering innovative topics such as real-time analytics, AI-powered tools and automation, Digital Sustainability includes actionable insights and deep analysis with real-world examples. Focusing on practical, scalable strategies that corporate leaders can adopt immediately, this book will be less about 'why' and more about 'how' leaders can implement digital technologies into their sustainability practices. Through robust, ready-to-use frameworks, this book equips leaders to navigate the challenges of digital transformation while ensuring their organizations thrive in a world increasingly defined by environmental and societal constraints.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulligan, Catherine

Kishore, Shivam

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section - ONE: The Digital Sustainability Landscape; Chapter - 01: Sustainable Resilience: Keeping the Lights On; Chapter - 02: A Digital Revolution in Sustainability? Has Digital Really Changed That Much?; Chapter - 03: Why Businesses Are Still Struggling with Implementing Sustainability; Section - TWO: An Effective Approach to Digital Sustainability; Chapter - 04: What Is Business Resilience in the 21st Century?; Chapter - 05: How Digital Creates Resilience; Chapter - 06: Convergence Theory: Digital Is Not Individual Technologies; Chapter - 07: The Risks of Digital Dependency; Chapter - 08: Resilience in Social, Regulatory, Environmental, and Geopolitical Contexts; Section - THREE: The New Playbook; Chapter - 09: Digital as a Set of Required and Enabling Capabilities; Chapter - 10: Practical frameworks for applying digitalisation to sustainability and resilience; Chapter - 11: Deep Dive into an example case study

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Mulligan is the Advanced Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London. She is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Shivam Kishore has worked at the intersection of technology and sustainability for over 15 years. He has held leadership roles at EY and Deloitte and has led digital and sustainability initiatives for Fortune 100 companies. He has served as the Lead for Technology and Innovation at the City of Vancouver's Economic Commission and works with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).