Your Company Needs an Energy Strategy

Andrew Winston

George Favaloro

Tim Healy

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  <h5>The Problem</h5>
  <p>Sweeping environmental, social, and business trends have propelled energy up the corporate agenda. But most firms still approach energy as merely a cost to be managed.</p>
  <h5>The Solution</h5>
  <p>Companies need a cohesive energy strategy that reduces risk, improves resilience, and creates new value.</p>
  <h5>Key Steps</h5>
  <p>Companies must create a C-level mandate, integrate energy goals into their vision and operations, track progress companywide, tap new technologies, and engage stakeholders. These steps are not revolutionary—but systematically applying them to a company’s energy use is.</p>
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</article-ideainbrief><p>Large companies spend millions, or billions, of dollars directly on energy each year—and millions more indirectly, on supply chain, outsourcing, and logistics costs. Yet outside the most energy-intensive industries, the majority of firms approach energy as merely a cost to be managed. This is a strategic mistake that overlooks enormous opportunities to reduce risk, improve resilience, and create new value.</p>

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<p>Many companies spend millions or even billions of dollars on energy every year. This is not just costly, but also represents an often overlooked opportunity to reduce risk, increase resilience, and add value across the board. As environmental concerns grow more urgent and new technologies emerge, companies must respond to these shifts with a robust energy strategy. This article offers a five-step framework to revamp your company&#8217;s energy policy: Create a C-level mandate, integrate energy goals into the vision and operations, track progress companywide, tap new technologies, and engage stakeholders.</p>

Energy Strategy for the C-Suite

Many companies spend millions or even billions of dollars on energy every year. This is not just costly, but also represents an often overlooked opportunity to reduce risk, increase resilience, and add value across the board. As environmental concerns grow more urgent and new technologies emerge, companies must respond to these shifts with a robust energy strategy. This article offers a five-step framework to revamp your company’s energy policy: Create a C-level mandate, integrate energy goals into the vision and operations, track progress companywide, tap new technologies, and engage stakeholders.

Energy Strategy for the C-Suite

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