RISK MANAGEMENT
Mary de Wysocki, Chief Sustainability Officer, Cisco
Behind Cisco’ s Sustainability Data Foundation( SDF) As explained by Colin, Cisco’ s SDF was established as one of the first priorities of the company’ s Chief Sustainability Office.
The process began by engaging with different stakeholder groups within Cisco to understand their use cases, existing data, desired data, as well as their future plans. They identified four major categories of use cases:
• Strategy and performance tracking
• Products and solutions
• Go-to-market activities
• Reporting
Now, the SDF integrates various types of data – including existing enterprise data, new sustainability-specific data and
third-party data – showcasing both the complexity and breadth of data types involved, along with the importance of treating this data properly.
“ There’ s a lot of different data types out there,” Colin explains.“ Some of these on the face of it sound very familiar, like supply chain data, customer data and procurement data. But in reality, as you start to dive into each of these different categories, there’ s a combination of data that exists already and is well managed in existing enterprise data warehouses and applications. There’ s also a lot of new data or new angles on data.”
Although not all data is currently available in SDF, it continues to evolve as it becomes“ broader and deeper and used by more tools”, as Colin shares.
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