Summary

Now that we have reached the end of this chapter, you should hopefully have a better insight into how IT, SustainTech, and CleanTech can unlock different opportunities to develop or leverage different types of sustainable solutions. In this chapter, we looked into ten specific areas on how technology can be applied for carbon emission reporting, sustainable sourcing and manufacturing, environmentally friendly transportation, energy-efficient buildings, energy resource management, hybrid work, eco-friendly travel, e-services, and turning a product into a service.

Furthermore, we looked further into how the trend of moving from ownership to usership unlocks several sustainable circular opportunities in a wide range of industries.

We explored two exciting case studies. The first case study was from Decathlon, which is taking a product, kids’ bikes, and turning it into a circular business model, a PaaS. The second one was from Hack for Earth. This non-profit organization...