In the five-plus years since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted, the chief compliance officer — or someone like her — has risen in visibility and influence. The idea of compliance for compliance’s sake is giving way to compliance as competitive advantage in the IT Realm.
CEO - CFO - CIO - COO - CCO - now a CGO?!?!?
A similar paradigm shift is occurring today around corporate environmental responsibility, according to AMR Research VP John Davies. As a result, a new member of the executive suite is beginning to make appearances: the chief green officer. How will this impact your Management Structure and what will Information Technology officers be expected to contribute?
Why a Chief Green Officer? The CGO’s main objectives include decreasing the company’s environmental footprint, involving employees, investors and others in the green effort, and finding new sources of revenue in the green marketplace. While the span of influence for the chief green officer is broad, corporate staff is kept lean. Rather than create a green bureaucracy, this person leads by taking a program management office approach. The most important task for the chief green officer is to work with the management team to set the overall corporate strategy.
Information Technology and Operations divisions of MANY corporations have already been on the leading forefront of making companies "greener". Investing in technology recycling and disposal programs, allocation certain percentages of resources to environmentally friends materials and chemicals within the corporate environment, energy-saving endeavors to the workplace and the bottom-line… One thing I’d like to know from our readership…
How has ‘going green’ impacted your way of business, and how to you see things moving forward in the future?
Is your company trying to market ‘greener’ goods and services to the green marketplace - or are you focuses on internal efficiency and conservation?