Unable to avoid the blindingly obvious, I shall resort to drawing up lists and pontificating on what the future holds.
1) The Environment. 10 years ago what would the phrase 'Climate Change' have meant to you? Probably nothing more than the transition of summer to winter. And yet at Copenhagen the great and the good gathered to discuss what they can do about it. OK they failed to achieve what many would want, but the very fact of their attendance was unthinkable even 5 years before.
So promises (Non binding, but promises non the less) were made, targets were agreed in principle. All well and good, but the impact of those promises and the legal framework that will doubtless come over time to support them, has yet to be seen. Green taxes will start to bite as politicians start to leverage their environmental credentials in order to fill the coffers and support the climb back from the economic downturn in the West. Legislation will ramp up on any 'dirty' industries providing work for environmental officers, lawyers and the courts, however this will filter down to effect the smaller businesses in not so small ways. Is your office environmentally friendly? Do you even know what this means in real terms? How should you measure it? What level qualifies as 'friendly'? Is today's measure valid tomorrow? All you can be certain of is uncertainty.
At Simplicity we have tried to work with this environmental concern at our heart. Not because we are holier than thou, not because we are Green lobbyists but because our customers are vitally important to us and we think that being 'Green' can only be a good thing. The three things we have actively targeted to support our customers are:
- Carbon tracking technology provided with our utilities partner and available on line through our secure portal for review at any time with Smart meters provided as standard. For more detail have a look at Technology as a Tool
- Support for remote working through cloud computing and hosted telephony for our customers allowing for more work to be done remotely and client meetings to be handled without the need to be face to face every time. This has the added benefit of providing built in disaster recovery and business continuity which will probably crop up again when we look at the impact of terrorism.
- Environmental surveys and consultancy to provide you with the details you need in order to make the changes that will have the most impact and ensure that you can reduce your costs and keep you in line with current and proposed legislation.
So if we can all learn a little from the past and make that learning count for the future then together we can each make the small changes that improve our businesses and help reduce our impact on the environment, who knows the future may yet not be so bleak.
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