The Next Wave of Sustainability Services Starts with IoT

This IDC Market Perspective highlights the pivotal role of IoT in driving sustainable supply chain transformation, emphasizing its integration for environmental and social impact measurement, compliance, and operational optimization. It details how professional services firms enable this shift through consulting, infrastructure, and IT services and advises technology providers to embed sustainability, foster ecosystem interoperability, and align with evolving regulations. This document underscores IoT's evolution from pilot projects to enterprise-scale, data-driven sustainability execution."The days of approximating and measuring from a distance are long gone; organizations looking to drive sustainable outcomes efficiently must integrate IoT into their sustainability operationalization strategy for direct and real-time measurement, management, and analysis." - Dan Versace, Sr. analyst, Sustainability and ESG Services, IDC