Cisco: How Sustainability Data Is Informing Customer Decisions
Key Highlights
- ➤Cisco’s Sustainability Data Foundation consolidates environmental data across the business
- ➤Sustainability data supports Cisco reporting, strategy, product design, go-to-market, and customer engagement
- ➤Customers increasingly evaluate technology using energy, carbon, and lifecycle implications
- ➤Customers seek product carbon footprints spanning materials, manufacturing, transportation, use, and end-of-life
- ➤AI-driven electricity demand is increasing the importance of supplier and product-level emissions data
Sustainability data has long been viewed primarily through the lens of reporting: measuring emissions, tracking progress, and preparing disclosures. But as sustainability becomes more deeply connected to business strategy and customer purchasing decisions, the role of data is expanding. In my work across sustainability, technology and business transformation, I've seen that meaningful progress happens when technical insight, reliable data and business context come together.
Increasingly, sustainability data is informing a wider range of decisions, from how products are designed to how customers evaluate technology choices. The next step is making that information sufficiently trusted, transparent and decision-ready that it can help shape those choices before they are made - not simply describe their impact afterwards.
Get started
Create a free account to read the full story.