SERVICES INDUSTRIES NEWS PEOPLE COMPANY CONTACT CARBON NEUTRAL FI EN DIGITALIZATION DRIVES TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS MORE SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION, BUSINESSES AND SOCIETIES The world is becoming smaller. Throughout all industries, ICT plays a key role in capturing sustainable business opportunities and upscaling solutions worldwide. Companies that offer ICT and digitalization-related solutions have the power to accelerate the transformation towards a cleaner and safer future. Our expertise Gaia’s experts help identify business opportunities beyond economic value creation and integrate societal impact-driven management approach into organizational processes, decision-making and innovation. Gaia’s expertise supports clients in capturing business value enforced with the triple bottom line thinking. We spur our clients to communicate the extended benefits of digital transformation and enhanced ESG performance throughout their company’s value chain. Our services We work with ICT industry clients to develop their overall approach to sustainable business within and outside the company. Our services include defining sustainable business strategies, target setting and innovation processes. We also help our clients to respond to the reporting requirements of various frameworks, including the GRI, TCFD and CDP. In addition to sustainability performance development and reporting, we conduct analyses on societal impacts and impact valuation. We have advised numerous companies in implementing an impact-oriented sustainability approach into their management processes, for example by aligning their business operations with the Social and Natural Capital Protocols that aim to generate substantiated societal benefits. CUSTOMER CASE Elisa Oyj Evaluating impacts of digitalization: Case asthma treatment in primary health care READ CASE CUSTOMER CASE CGI Oyj Impact Sales READ CASE CUSTOMER CASE Tieto Oy Socio-economic impact valuation – case data driven health READ CASE CUSTOMER CASE Tieto Oy The impact of demand flexibility solutions in the decarbonization of the electricity system READ CASE BLOGS ICT ULLA HEINONEN 12.02.2018 Digitalization enables sustainable development (in Finnish) Digitalisaatio ja kestävä kehitys – kaksi tämän päivän muotitermiä, jotka löytyvät useimman organisaation ja yrityksen strategiasta ja monista tulevaisuutta pohtivista kirjoitelmista. Onko sanahelinän takana konkretiaa ja liittyvätkö nämä niin usein käytetyt termit lainkaan toisiinsa? READ BLOG ICT GAIA PRESSROOM 28.09.2017 The thriving marriage of digitalization and sustainability I spent the last week in Singapore attending SLUSH Singapore and Digitalizing Maritime Business seminar by the City of Helsinki. The week was all about building bridges between Finnish and Singaporean companies. Finland and Singapore, although separated by nearly 10 000 kilometres, have many similarities. READ BLOG ICT GAIA PRESSROOM 06.06.2017 A Goldmine of Ideas on Reinventing Sustainable Business Hackathons – design sprint-like events in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate intensively on software projects, as aptly described by Wikipedia – seem to be taking the Finnish industry by a storm. Companies such as YIT, KONE, Konecranes, Stora Enso, as well as many public sector institutions have in recent years discovered this novel way of inviting people outside of their organization to help reinvent their operations and get outside-of-the-box ideas. READ BLOG ASK FOR MORE INFORMATION Impact valuation Business development Data analytics Ulla Heinonen Managing Director +358 40 550 6982 ulla.heinonen@gaia.fi Innovative Solutions for Sustainability Addis Ababa Beijing Buenos Aires Gothenburg San Francisco Helsinki Turku Zürich © Gaia 2021 GDPR privacy policy