Business Services
These services all play a major role in other sectors, such as manufacturing and healthcare. In the UK, for instance, businesses services account for 15.6% of all registered companies.1
The sector largely recognises the importance of sustainability, according to a recent report2, but is still lacking when it comes to making real progress. While business services ranked as the most committed to environmental sustainability, the same report found that only 61% said compliance with environmental rules and regulations is extremely important to their business.
That’s likely because the sector may feel it has a relatively small impact on the environment when compared to other major industries such manufacturing. However, these companies form part of the supply chain of larger organisations, which are now demanding insight into their partners’ corporate social responsibility efforts.
This means that committing to ESG and taking steps to become more efficient is fundamental to organisations going forward, particularly as younger, more eco-conscious professionals enter the workforce.
Business services companies will also have long, complex supply chains. Creating a sustainable supply chain is an important part of demonstrating a company’s own sustainability credentials. Environmentally conscious suppliers help cut a company’s emissions and communicate a company’s sustainable commitments to stakeholders.
Managed print services: Printing is one area where the business services sector can make immediate progress towards net zero goals. CIOs can ensure employees are not burdened by monolithic, legacy printers and a lack of digital optimisation by shifting to a managed print service, whereby a third party manages all your business printing devices, including printers, scanners, faxes and copiers. HP Managed Print Services (MPS) is a suite of scalable and flexible solutions for office and production printing environments that help organisations productively and profitably manage paper and digital document workflows.
Embrace the circular economy. By introducing sustainable hardware and becoming more circular throughout an organisation’s IT stack, CIOs can ensure their organisation is taking steps towards sustainability targets. For example, by adopting a device such as the HP Elite Dragonfly – which is crafted from 80% recycled materials - you can ensure your organisation is minimising waste and not contributing to the global epidemic of polluting oceans and water supplies. While embracing HP DaaS to access the devices that suit your business needs, can reduce the need to make unnecessary replacements.
1 https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/bulletins/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation/2022 2 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reframing-esg-business-services-firms-james-morris-acma-/3 https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA8-2235ENW.pdf
Over its 22-year history, ICT Zone has built a reputation as an innovator, visionary and challenger of traditional models in Malaysia’s IT sector. ICT Zone, which has long been an HP partner, recognised a need to innovate when it comes to sustainability, which saw the company integrate HP Serviced into its Device as a Service offering in 2017. This not only enables ICT Zone to proactively manage device performance, security and inventory, but also to maximise hardware sustainability and contribute to the circular economy.3
