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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. However, it wasn’t until the 1990s that ESG considerations started to appear in mainstream investment strategies. In 1995, the U.S

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Accelerating sustainability to build stronger businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

A poll of public and private sector leaders in the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2022 found that environment-related threats, including climate action failure and extreme weather events, topped the lists of short and long-term global risks. About the Author: Katrina Rymill Green IT

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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

IBM Big Data Hub

1 In pursuit of net zero, organizations will focus their sustainability efforts on two paths in 2024: Clean energy : The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is central to sustainability strategies and net zero initiatives, and was a central issue last year at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit.

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What a quarter century of digital transformation at PayPal looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

We grew hand in hand with eBay and have continued to do so after separating in 2015.” One strategy, five keys From a technological point of view, the brand’s strategic engine is divided into five investment areas. User data is also housed in this layer, including profile, behavior, transactions, and risk.

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Illuminating the black box: why CIOs should consider publishing an annual IT report

CIO Business Intelligence

This article was co-authored by Ishan Prakash , a Manager at Metis Strategy. Once relegated to a role of support, the function now can inform entire strategies as critically as it does key processes or core products. The black box For decades IT has been a black box—an obscurity of inner workings mostly just accepted by the firm.

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Drug Discovery Needs AI To Discover More Treatments

Smart Data Collective

In a report on the failure rates of drug discovery efforts between 2013 and 2015, Richard K. Without better methodology, difficult-to-treat and ill-understood conditions and diseases are at risk of staying that way. The 15% failure rate of new drugs due to incompatible company strategies doesn’t have to continue.

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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO Business Intelligence

It launched its first online-only brand, Very, in 2009 and finally abandoned its printed catalogs to go all-in online in 2015. It’ being everything from how they collect and measure data, to how they understand it and their own glossary. We’re picking off the highest potential value and highest risk areas,” he says.

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