Feb 08

On Tuesday to Thursday this week the NASSCOM annual conference takes place in Mumbai, India. With over 20 countries being represented at the event, it’s now one of the largest and most important technology and hi-tech service events in the world. And Steria is there as one of the platinum supporters of the event.

If you look closely, you’ll also notice that NASSCOM has appointed me as one of the official bloggers for the event.

The Steria management team, including François Enaud, Mukesh Aghi, and John Torrie will all be at the event participating in the debate. And this year Steria is leading the conversation on sustainability. The ‘Sustain and Save’ debate is going to highlight how sustainability and concerns for the environment can be placed squarely alongside creating value for the organisation.

Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. Boardrooms across the country are engaged, right now, in finding greener ways of working. They’re being tasked by shareholders, employees, customers and citizens as well as by governments and green lobbyists to switch to more environmentally conscious practices.

Importantly, they’re looking for fresh approaches that allow the organisation to achieve efficiencies and pass value to end-users, but without depleting the planet’s natural resources for future generations.

This is all framed by the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference and the resulting Copenhagen Accord. For the first time, this document unites the USA, China and other major developing countries in an effort to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. Although the conference did not deliver a legally binding deal, the Copenhagen Accord did reiterate a commitment ‘to reduce global emissions so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2ºC’ and to achieve ‘the peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible’.

Steria is leading the conversation in Mumbai next week by focusing on sustainability. How do you feel sustainability can be respected at the same time as the bottom line?


  2 comments to “Steria @ NASSCOM in Mumbai”

  • 1 Ramesh Iyer Says:
    February 9th, 2010 at: 12:22 am - Report abuse

    How has Steria internalised a greener existence without sacrificing its bottom line ?
    I feel that the best way to tell the world what to do is to share what we have done

  • 2 John Neilson Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at: 3:39 pm - Report abuse

    As well as helping our clients become greener, we’re committed to getting our own house in order and are taking ongoing steps to become a more sustainable organisation. We’ve adopted a variety of initiatives to minimise our impact on the environment, such as setting up a network of green champions, adhering to regulatory standards (e.g. Carbon Disclosure Project, UK GCompact), participating in the Carbon Disclosure Project 2009, and launching internal green awareness campaigns. Because of this dedication, we were identified as one of the top five greenest suppliers to the Home Office.

    This commitment to going green stretches far beyond the UK. We are now ISO 14001 certified in the UK, Spain, Germany and Poland (a number of our other offices close to achieving this), and have over 800 ‘green agents’ across the entire international network. We also have an international Group Green Governance structure with representatives in all Steria countries and are part of the Group Corporate Responsibility Board.

    John Neilson, Head of Environmental Sustainability Steria

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