By Grant Gross, Senior Writer, CIO.com on August 13, 2024
Most CIOs now evaluate potential vendors and partners based on their green initiatives as part of a greater push to lead sustainability efforts at their own companies.
Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with.
More than nine in 10 CIOs are ramping up sustainability investments, according to the Logicalis Global CIO Report for 2024. The report, based on an annual survey of IT leaders, also found that 90% of CIOs prioritize partners and vendors based on their sustainability credentials — a huge change since the 2023 report, when 49% of CIOs looked at carbon output, sustainability, and energy efficiency when choosing new suppliers.
