{"id":24834,"date":"2025-07-08T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/?p=24834"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:57:00","slug":"how-sustainability-grows-from-knowledge-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/how-sustainability-grows-from-knowledge-management\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sustainability Grows from KM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to businesses\u2019 fiscal outcomes. Sustainability is the practice of enhancing environmentally-friendly practices in an organization, such as by reducing energy consumption or water usage. Today\u2019s consumers value sustainability as a core principle when making purchasing decisions. When Generation Z and Millennial customers believe that a brand cares about its impact on the environment and people, they are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27% more likely<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to purchase from that brand than older generations are, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/09\/research-consumers-sustainability-demands-are-rising\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Harvard Business Review<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Implementing eco-friendly practices can help organizations appeal to this demographic, substantially increasing their potential revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustainable organizations are also more internally efficient. In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/09\/120910112036.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>UCLA study of over 5,000 companies<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, environmental economists found that organizations that voluntarily adopt international \u201cgreen\u201d practices and standards have employees who are, on average, 16% more productive. And t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">echnological solutions, when paired with knowledge management (KM) practices, can create new pathways to grow sustainability at your organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KM can be used to achieve sustainability while simultaneously developing an organization\u2019s technical capabilities. Our clients have used a variety of KM practices to become more sustainable, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pruning back the scale of content;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rooting sustainable practices in user behavior by promoting environmentally-conscious practices;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sprouting a green system by optimizing computational pipelines; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leveraging semantics so they don\u2019t miss the forest for the trees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this blog, I will discuss how EK has used these techniques to help three different organizations achieve their sustainability goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24835\" src=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sustainability.png\" alt=\"KM grows from sustainability\" width=\"967\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sustainability.png 1600w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sustainability-336x189.png 336w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sustainability-771x434.png 771w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sustainability-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sustainability-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Technique 1: Prune Back the Scale of Content<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsure about how content is affecting your organization\u2019s carbon footprint? Consider the scale of your content. Content increases carbon emissions because of the energy required to create, store, and access the materials. A higher volume of content necessitates more energy\u2014thus generating more carbon emissions\u2014to utilize.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removing duplicate content can also benefit organizations financially. Since organizations experience per-gigabyte (GB) data expenses, duplicate content can become costly, especially considering their deteriorative effect on overall data quality. If a file exists in multiple versions with different editors, it is nearly impossible to discern which file is the most up-to-date. An organization could easily rely on the wrong file for information, reducing accuracy and efficiency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pruning back the scale of content benefits organizations from both a financial and environmental lens. Investigating the scale of asset libraries is a first step in this process, which can be performed by using semantic applications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #d9d2e9; background-color: #d9d2e9;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h3><em><strong>Technique in Action: Investment and Insurance Company<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/system-migration-and-enterprise-search-powered-by-taxonomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>investment and insurance company<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found that their search experience consistently produced outdated or inaccessible results, they engaged EK to improve it. EK conducted a content analysis by assessing the organization\u2019s content against six evaluation parameters that revealed which content was out-of-date. Additionally, EK provided the client with an enterprise taxonomy that would support immediate use cases and future-oriented applications of the search infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through this approach, EK both improved their search experience and built an automated content audit capability that decreased their carbon footprint. At the end of the engagement, the organization was able to identify that about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">45% of their content <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was obsolete or outdated. Using this data, our client could locate and remove unnecessary information, thus decreasing their carbon footprint with minimal human effort.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Technique 2: Root Sustainable Practices in User Behavior<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users at an organization can inadvertently perpetuate an unsustainable content culture. Duplicate content most commonly emerges when employees save multiple copies of the same file to their devices, construct new files to replace forgotten ones, or use separate files for different document versions. Users may not consciously perpetuate these practices; however, the effects are damaging. Saving and storing unnecessary content has significant environmental impacts as it collects over time, where storing hundreds of GBs of data can equate to large amounts of carbon dioxide released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adjusting user behavior can prevent the unnecessary collection of data. When organizations provide visibility to their employees on their individual carbon footprint, users become accountable for their own environmental efforts and naturally decrease any unsustainable behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #d9d2e9; background-color: #d9d2e9;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h3><em><strong>Technique in Action: Global Energy Company<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recognizing the negative effects of having poor data, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/ai-augmented-content-analysis-to-remediate-duplicate-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>global energy company<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> partnered with EK to develop a \u201cgreen\u201d information management strategy that would adjust user behavior. EK identified the three most pressing challenges to producing a sustainable KM system at the organization:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proliferation of duplicative content was producing a significant number of carbon emissions;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collaboration software unintentionally built silos and promoted content duplication; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the organization were struggling to reduce duplication proactively.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To address these duplication-centric challenges, EK designed an AI-Powered Digital Carbon Footprint Calculator that would help employees conceptualize their individual impact on the organization\u2019s carbon footprint. The application allowed employees to filter through their personal documents, find all of the places where they were stored, and see how much storage these documents occupied. Most critically, the dashboard provided real-time calculations of how much carbon dioxide was required to store an individual\u2019s documents. When employees deleted their content, their carbon emissions decreased on the dashboard, giving them immediate feedback on their actions. EK also provided the organization with specialized recommendations for how this device could be enhanced in the future, such as periodically deleting forgotten duplicate documents so as to reduce employees\u2019 carbon emissions automatically. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Technique 3: Sprout a Green System Through the Optimization of Computational Pipelines<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI produces substantial environmental costs, through the electricity required to run data centers and the water necessary to cool them. Many organizations face a conflict between their desire to technologically mature by implementing AI, and their concern about the environmental impacts of doing so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizations can mitigate the environmental impact of their AI use and corresponding carbon emissions by reducing the computing power used in AI. This can be accomplished by making thoughtful decisions when designing AI architecture. How data is stored and transferred, and where servers are located, can have small but meaningful impacts on the sustainability of an AI solution. Your choice of cloud architecture also matters: powering AI models with renewable energy can promote sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24837 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/unnamed-19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/unnamed-19.png 960w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/unnamed-19-336x189.png 336w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/unnamed-19-771x434.png 771w, https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/unnamed-19-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #d9d2e9; background-color: #d9d2e9;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h3><em><strong>Technique in Action: Global Energy Company<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our engagement with the global energy company, EK used a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/hybrid-approaches-to-green-information-management-a-case-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>green approach<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to design their AI-Powered Digital Footprint Calculator. Green information management is a strategic approach that emphasizes minimizing the environmental impacts of information-related processes within an organization. EK\u2019s design included running analysis pipelines in cloud infrastructure in under-utilized regions or regions powered by renewable energy, using existing transformer models that required less storage space, and minimizing data movement to reduce energy consumption. The design features improved the sustainability of the AI approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustainably designed AI can be used to decrease an organization\u2019s carbon footprint. The global energy company used the AI-Powered Digital Footprint Calculator to identify duplicate content and evaluate options for handling it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AI-Powered Digital Footprint Calculator was predicted to help the organization reach their 15% target deduplication rate, enabling them to remove over 34,000 kilograms of CO2 from the environment, the same as 20 flights from New York to London. This meant fewer storage costs, both financial and environmental, where the company would not only pay fewer annual fees on unnecessary storage needs but also reduce hundreds of tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Technique 4: Leverage Existing Data So You Don\u2019t Miss the Forest for the Trees<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some organizations may have already launched sustainability activities. However, these solutions may not be optimized to maximize environmental outputs. When information is inconsistently tagged, siloed, or forgotten, it becomes lost to the organization, hurting otherwise well-planned ecological efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizations can maximize the effectiveness of their environmental campaigns by introducing technological solutions that promote visibility, insights, and accuracy about the ecological impact of their initiatives. Solutions such as a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/what-is-a-semantic-layer-components-and-enterprise-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semantic layer<\/a><\/strong> can be leveraged to enhance organizational efficiency towards promoting sustainability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #d9d2e9; background-color: #d9d2e9;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h3><em><strong>Technique in Action: Global Management Consulting Firm<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/knowledge-graph-accelerator-for-data-standardization-and-environmental-social-governance-esg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>global management consulting firm<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> worked with EK to uncover insights regarding environmental impacts from supply chain processes. Since this information was stored in disparate locations without a standardized vocabulary, it was challenging to identify patterns and thereby advise on sustainability solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the span of three months, EK provided the organization with our Knowledge Graph Accelerator model to create a semantic data layer and web application that connected consultants to relevant data from past projects. Using this tool, the consulting firm was able to advise on efficient measures that would limit environmental impact while optimizing cost. Consultants can leverage insights to provide clients with solutions that both generate profit and support sustainability.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustainability has several benefits for an organization: it promotes productivity in the workforce, attracts high-quality employees, raises employee satisfaction overall, and increases the marketability of a company\u2019s services. KM practices can help your organization achieve these outcomes while simultaneously reducing storage costs and streamlining client data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enterprise Knowledge possesses expertise in making technical solutions that are both mature and sustainable. Our use of semantic applications and green data practices has supported environmental initiatives for various clients, and can help your organization to reach ambitious sustainability goals as well. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise-knowledge.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Contact us<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> today if you would like assistance in using KM to become environmentally friendly as an organization.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to businesses\u2019 fiscal outcomes. Sustainability is the practice of enhancing environmentally-friendly practices in an organization, such as by reducing energy consumption or water usage. 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