News, product announcements and tips from the Footprinter team
Footprinter works hard on tools that bring data to life. It is not just a table of numbers - it's insight and conclusions. We are all visual learners - since we were babies. And a well-designed set of visualizations can make a huge difference in how well you communicate. Did …
Footprinter Green Design's very visual performance gauges are featured prominately on a high level RB webpage titled Better design. RB goes on to point out that: 100% of product innovations assessed by our Sustainable Innovation Calculator RB’s Sustainable Innovation Calculator guides the development of low-impact products. In 2013, we assessed over …
A full LCA study for most or all products in a portfolio often isn’t practical or cost effective just because of how many products a company has. And we think it is far better to have a lot of good data in an accessible system across your business than a …
Adopting a sustainability system brings long-term competitive advantages to a business. Few businesses today would consider operating without a company wide financial system and business intelligence tools. We believe that increasingly the same mindset is felt with sustainability teams. There is increasingly powerful software emerging and the challenges in deployment …
RB is beginning to get well deserved recognition for their leadership in product sustainability. This post on GreenBiz sheds more light on how RB has successfully infused sustainability into their product development process. "Reckitt Benckiser has been at the forefront ... and demonstrates best practices ... Focus development teams on a …
There is a quiet revolution going on in information technology. The world is become so digital and fast moving, that old technologies for storing and making sense of the data can't keep up. The IT revolution has the catchy name "Big Data". Here are some examples of BIG: every 60 …
Sustainability consultants Pure Strategies have put out a solid and important piece of research called "The Path to Product Sustainability". From their research they draw two basic insights: Companies committed to product sustainability enjoy the benefits of manufacturing cost savings, brand enhancement, employee engagement and other important financial and organizational …
Craig Simmons Chief Technical Advisor at Anthesis, talks about practical approaches to enterprise-scale sustainability. We love his observation that "you cannot save the world one life cycle analysis at a time"! One step at a time isn't fast enough. We need to be able to run, and run fast. Otherwise we …