Sustainability from Delaware

Accelerate your sustainability journey

Sustainability is becoming increasingly intertwined with many departments, such as operations and finance, in every organisation. Consisting of the three pillars of economy, society and environment (also known as profit, people and planet), sustainability is increasingly considered a ‘top priority’ by companies of all sizes, with 55% of businesses claiming that sustainability is important to them.

Not only is sustainability imperative to ensuring compliance, but sustainable business practices can give organisations a competitive advantage, secure stakeholder investments, and attract and retain customers.

Break down the barriers preventing consistent and compliant ESG reporting

As the clock ticks on the climate crisis, organisations roll up their sleeves to put sustainability into practice. And today, with a global focus on sustainability and regulations becoming increasingly tighter, many believe we have no choice. The good news: investing in sustainability pays off!

In this eBook, we'll be exploring the challenges we're seeing organisations face on their path to sustainability. and defining the key blockers preventing them from achieving holistic reporting.

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How to achieve eco-friendly operations

Operations are the backbone of any business, responsible for creating value, delivering quality, and ensuring efficiency. However, in today's world, businesses also face increasing pressure to be sustainable, meaning that they consider not only the economic, but the social and environmental impacts of their activities, too.

This eBook explores how companies can achieve eco-friendly operations by addressing common challenges, adopting key sustainability considerations, and leveraging software tools and best practices.

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Strategies for a greener future

Manufacturing in a sustainable way is both an ethical obligation and a strategic advantage. By adopting sustainable practices, manufacturing companies can cut costs, enhance efficiency, improve quality, and gain a market edge. Furthermore, they can satisfy the rising demand of consumers who are increasingly seeking products that are environmentally friendly.

This eBook offers practical advice on how to integrate sustainability into manufacturing processes. It addresses key sustainability issues and challenges, and the steps and strategies that business leaders need to adopt.

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We look forward to taking the next step in further developing our sustainability strategy, together with Delaware.

Jeroen VermeireCFO at Ghistelinck Automotive

1. Translating your sustainability strategy and vision into a roadmap

Our business consultants can help you kick off your sustainability journey by making your strategy and vision tangible. In a short series of workshops, we assess your sustainability maturity, help you define your stakeholders, conduct a materiality assessment, and develop your roadmap.

If you already have a double materiality matrix in place, we can help you embed sustainability across your entire organisation by tackling all specific challenges per department. Together, we will define solutions for each of your challenges and analyse the efforts needed to resolve them, helping you gain useful insights into the possible steps to steer your sustainability strategy forward.

3. Calculating KPIs, enabling transparent, compliant reporting, and creating insights to steer your company

Complete, high-quality data is only the first step in monitoring your sustainability performance and making informed decisions. To determine and track your ESG targets and report transparently, you need the right reporting and calculation tools and the ability to integrate them into your existing IT landscape.

We can help you boost visibility and transparency, both inhouse and externally, and ensure compliance with reporting frameworks and standards, providing solutions to:

Determine ESG goals and monitor your progress,
Craft clear dashboards
Draft a sustainability, integrated or taxonomy report
And more

2. Addressing your sustainability data challenges

As data and analytics experts, we help organisations bring their sustainability strategy to life. Our sustainability data approach – ‘Green data lake approach’ – consists of 3 steps:

Data readiness check: We help you pinpoint data gaps, verify the quality of the available data, and identify both the internal and external data sources. We can also take care of data governance and advise you on how data is best delivered.
Data mapping and automation: We map the required data in your landscape, determine the required data architecture, then let automation tools extract, upload, process, and integrate the data for you so that you save time and money, while enhancing accuracy.
Data ingestion and transformation: We turn your existing data infrastructure into a modern data platform. Built around a scalable, cost-effective data lake, the platform will ingest the raw data, unlock it, and store it, ready to be turned into actionable insights.

4. Elevating sustainability using advanced technologies

Looking for ways to take your sustainability journey one step further? Let our developers conceive tailor-made apps or gamification experiences to drive engagement among your employees, make safety checks or waste management easier, and much more.

Alternatively, why not try an innovative tool from one of our venture companies to manage scope-3 emissions in collaboration with your suppliers or to complete complex ESG questionnaires with ease, thanks to the help of AI?

An introduction to the green data lake approach

Looking for a quick introduction to the green data lake approach?

Sven Arnauts, Senior Manager and Board Member at Delaware, discusses why the green data lake approach is extremely interesting to businesses who are really driving a strategic initiative on realising their sustainability goals.