Big Blue Goes Green

You know it has hit the mainstream when IBM jumps in. Well today IBM announced "Green Sigma" a service offered by their consulting group that, according to their press release, "can help clients lower their environmental impact, increase efficiency and reduce costs by applying Lean Six Sigma principles to energy and water usage..."

At the core of the service is a new management dashboard [why IBM chose to put the demo out as an .exe file we'll never know] that captures non-financial performance metrics. With these projects, implementation is key, but if the the demo dashboard is any indicator of what they're selling, it looks pretty slick.


I've always felt that people pay attention to what you measure and sustainability is no different. I look forward to an active discussion inside of Viridus on what actual IBM customers think about this.