Banking

Corporate sustainability is an opportunity for banks to make a difference—not only in the environment but also on the bottom line.

Rising concerns about the environment create both an opportunity and a requirement for financial services organizations. Taking action on climate change offers your organization the opportunity to lower costs through ecological efficiency and the opportunity to be compliant with emerging regulations by intelligently analyzing your environmental impacts. Demonstrating your company's commitment to addressing climate change can enhance your bottom line profits and reputation, strengthen brand loyalty and attract motivated talent.

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Chemicals & Petroleum

Projected demand for energy is expected to increase by 50% from 2005 to 2030. The time is right to add intelligence to oilfields. Advances are pushing 3-D seismic modeling into the next generation, enabling scientists to discern fields that previously were invisible. Autonomic sensing technologies and data analytics are being used to improve oil exploration: identify viable reserves, enhance oil recovery, improve productivity and anticipate problems, minimizing risk to people and the environment.

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Build a sustainable future for electronics

Your customers are getting savvy. Not only do they want a great product for a great price, they want it produced in an environmentally-friendly way. From biodegradable components to lower power usage to technology take-back programs, there are many ways electronics makers like you can reduce, reuse and recycle. And IBM offers a variety of solutions, services and thought leadership to help you transition to a greener, more sustainable electronics enterprise.

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Energy & Utilities

Smarter energy offers an opportunity to reduce energy use by up to 15%. By providing real-time information about the flow of energy, an intelligent utility system helps citizens and utilities make smarter, more responsible choices about the way they buy, sell and manage electricity. To deliver power more responsibly and more efficiently, energy and utilities organizations are working toward a smarter energy value chain.

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Financial markets

Corporate sustainability is an opportunity for financial firms to make a difference—not only in the environment but also on the bottom line.

Rising concerns about the environment create both an opportunity and a requirement for financial services organizations. Taking action on climate change offers your organization the opportunity to lower costs through ecological efficiency and the opportunity to be compliant with emerging regulations by intelligently analyzing your environmental impacts. Demonstrating your company's commitment to addressing climate change can enhance your bottom line profits and reputation, strengthen brand loyalty and attract motivated talent.

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Government

Governments worldwide are striving to realize the economic benefits that come from using less water, less energy and making less of a mark on the environment.

Mass urbanization, technological empowerment, and new intelligence are changing the look of cities and challenging them with new opportunities that include transportation, water, energy, and communication. Governments need to seize the opportunity to address these challenges holistically, build sustainability, prosperity and become "smarter". IBM can help.

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Insurance

Corporate sustainability is an opportunity for insurance companies to make a difference—not only in the environment but also on the bottom line.

Rising concerns about the environment create both an opportunity and a requirement for financial services organizations. Taking action on climate change offers your organization the opportunity to lower costs through ecological efficiency and the opportunity to be compliant with emerging regulations by intelligently analyzing your environmental impacts. Demonstrating your company's commitment to addressing climate change can enhance your bottom line profits and reputation, strengthen brand loyalty and attract motivated talent.

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Retail green initiative

Save costs through conservation and operational efficiency, while building a green brand identity. The commitment to going green and focusing on sustainability is no longer just an option. Governments are requiring it. Your customers and investors desire it. Your competitors are doing it. And good business practices demand it, because energy savings go right to the bottom line. Sustainability is the new way of doing business. For retailers, going green means operating more efficiently. Generating savings from slashed energy costs, recycling, recovering and reusing.

And when a commitment to the environment is part of a company's corporate social responsibility initiatives, operating in a green fashion becomes part of the company's brand and identity, helping to attract customers, seed growth, and most of all, save money.

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Transportation

Every year, traffic wastes 58 supertankers of fuel. Rail is two to five times more energy efficient than road or air transportation, but demand for rail is outpacing capacity of rail systems. How can we improve systems so that our roads, rail and air systems work together?

Apply embedded intelligence, analytics and optimization to create smarter transportation systems to help reduce congestion and cut emissions while improving everyone's experience on our roads, rivers, rails and airways.

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