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Smart documentation – Reducing carbon footprint with powerful digital workflows
Smart documentation – Reducing carbon footprint with powerful digital workflows

June 22, 2022

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The modern business landscape needs a new focus on climate responsibilities. A new set of technology-based solutions are proving efficient at handling the carbon footprint of a wide variety of users. The Covid-19 Pandemic will undoubtedly be remembered as a period when the world’s organizations made remarkable functional changes at a faster rate. Businesses made rapid modifications to prioritize employee safety and adapted everyday business operations to new remote-friendly ways of working.

Global Warming causes new record temperature levels- time after time and greenhouse gas emissions by human activities are directly held responsible. Existing Greenhouse Gas emission levels need to be reduced by 2030, and net-zero emissions need to be achieved by 2050 to contain global Warming to a sub-catastrophic degree.

Carbon emissions continue to be at disastrous levels regardless of any environmental activity. More than 100 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent were voluntarily offset in the United States in 2019 alone. Nevertheless, this was less than 2% of the nation’s overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The world would need to significantly decarbonize over the next decade to fulfill climate targets, with carbon monitoring solutions currently representing one of the most pragmatic processes available.  While the modifications were disconcerting in many situations, some of the new working methods were overdue that will likely become commonplace in post-pandemic operations. Here are some important trends for modern business leaders to contemplate:

  • Several businesses increased their cloud capabilities as they accepted distributed, digital workflows. As a result, the need for data center capacity to sustain cloud solutions rose drastically.
  • Employees acquired new self-sufficiency in their job. Due to the online environment, employees could efficiently work from home. Many businesses have introduced plans for more flexibility regarding remote jobs.
  • The new economy is driven by expectations that products and services will be readily available anytime, anywhere. Throughout the pandemic, businesses sped up the adoption of electronic devices and digitization of manual processes.
  • Global emissions momentarily dipped, and the total emissions were down by 7% in 2020, driven in huge parts by the decrease in transportation. As post-pandemic practices develop, stakeholders anticipate organizations protecting ecological gains as business resumes full force.

The risk of climate change has not decreased yet. Today, the focus in several parts of the world is to develop a modern workflow that consists of more sustainable habits. It is clear that a critical element of these processes emphasizes environmental duties.

Using electronic signature and sustaining a paperless business model.For a majority of businesses, the electricity used in processes like offices, data centers, and various other places is the catalyst for overall emissions. Lowering power consumption and switching to renewable energy sources are simple emissions reduction approaches. The untold approach in this segment consists of prioritizing energy-efficient projects in workplaces, including stricter environmental standards in RFPs, and enhancing the use of renewable energy.

We have been employing the following strategies to reach our 100% renewable energy targets:

  • Electronic signatures- To sign documents on smartphones as conveniently as sending out a text message.
  • MSB Smart forms- To pull out all the necessary information and data to create an intelligent, simplified web form on an isolated cloud.
  • Workflow Template- To define desired workflows is a one-time job with the MSB Docs platform, and users need not do it repeatedly. This saves time, trouble, and power consumption.
  • TeamRoom- Allows multiple users to come together in real-time or work offline to draft, view, share, and sign documents, helping businesses to deliver faster, and save power consumption.

We want software applications to become part of the climate solution instead  of a part of the climate issue. Therefore, we are concentrating on minimizing the adverse effects of software on our environment by lowering the carbon emissions, which software is accountable for producing.

The software applications can also enable climate solutions and can be developed to help speed up decarbonization across all industries. The way software programs are designed, developed, and deployed can significantly affect power consumption.

As necessary, businesses need to include software programs in their sustainability initiatives. They need to enunciate an approach that guides trade-offs, enables adaptability evaluation, improves the development life cycle, and uses sustainable software to make cloud-based centers greener.

Source: https://bit.ly/3QDjau7 


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