The benefits associated with Digital 4 Impact are many, among which:

• Precise measurement of impact;
• Enable Data-Driven Eco-design and Optimization of Operations;
• Better sourcing of raw materials and a detailed understanding of their environmental footprint;
• Better communication and collaboration between different stakeholders;
• Improved product labelling and consumer awareness;
• Quality monitoring of operations and impact;
• Increased transparency between different stakeholders, enabling the optimization of Compensation Programes;
• Empower employees, integrating sustainability into their role and functions, from Procurement to Finance; 
• and, provide more accurate and measurement and decision-making tools for the top Management (than yearly ESG reports that did not help to take action so far).

Eco-systemic Innovation

Digital 4 Impact is, more than an emerging system, it’s an opportunity for companies to substantially advance their transformation and embed sustainability into functions and across supply chains, enabling ecosystemic symbiosis and systemic change.

As with every Digital Transformation, it has several challenges and internal impacts to be managed:

• Selection of the right tech for a specific business or supply chain – there is no “one shoe fits all” solution for the environmental and ecologic crisis;
• Correct, scaled and progressive implementation – we identify a lack of “Proof of Concept” culture, where the ….
• Technical expertise to properly integrate new technologies into business operations;
• Engagement between actors at different stages of the supply chain.

The implementation of such technologies often has a Systemic Impact on the Value Chain and invites us to rethink the way we Source → Transform → Transport → Build → Distribute → Use → until End-of-Life. Thus inviting us to rethink the Business A to Z.

Sharing Knowledge

From now on, Impact Labs 4 Earth will share our knowledge and experience on our website (www.impactlabs.earth) and here, on LinkedIn.

We aim to integrate research and knowledge acquisition into our company’s culture and, with that, accelerate Sustainable Business Transformation fueld by Digital Technologies. This will be part of our Lab Research on :

1/ Digitally enabled Sustainability

2/ Impact Data & Analytics

3/ Regenerative Business Transformation

While thinking about the positive Impact those technologies can bring, we will also systematically weigh in the potential negative impact, making sure those technologies are implemented in full consciousness.

This “Digitalization of Sustainable Transformation” is an opportunity to enter a new Age of Sustainability, and maybe even allow a Renaissance for our economies, like what happened during the French Renaissance in the 15th century, when Rabelais, a famous physicist and philosopher, highlighted the need to carefully think the usage of technology to drive progress.

Without consciousness, Science (or Technology) might lead us into blind “Techno-solutionism”, or on the contrary, into the light of a Regenerative Economy that is thriving between planetary boundaries and strong social foundations.