Enerlytic shares five lessons learned from setting credible sustainability targets and getting employees onboard for successful delivery.
1) Understand your baseline
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure”, so said Peter Drucker, the Austrian American management consultant whose work helped to form the practices of modern business. And it’s the starting point for financial directors worldwide.
Before setting any sustainable targets it’s essential to have a good understanding of where you are today. Separate everything in your business into categories; understand what you need to prioritise, where the low hanging fruit is, and what is the ‘biggest bang for your buck’?
In a rapidly changing market, with new technologies and entrants giving more choice than ever, it is so important for you to have access to your energy data and then, when you understand it implicitly, you can take those steps to reduce your consumption.
Data is vital to understanding how much energy your business uses as well as when and where. If you have the numbers to hand, you can start t
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