How to link green manufacturing to long-term brand value

Matsumoto Precision Co., Ltd. is pioneering smart and sustainable machine parts manufacturing in Japan through data-driven carbon tracking. The company specializes in pneumatic control parts for robots and internal combustion engine components for automobiles. In 2022, it launched The Sustainable Factory, a fully renewable-energy-powered facility that marked a major step in its commitment to sustainability.[LB1] …

Green AI: A complete implementation framework for technical leaders and IT organizations

When we first began exploring the environmental cost of large-scale AI systems, we were struck by a simple realization: our models are becoming smarter, but our infrastructure is becoming heavier. Every model training run, inference endpoint and data pipeline contributes to an expanding carbon footprint. For most organizations, sustainability is still treated as a corporate…

A no-nonsense framework for cloud repatriation

In “Why cloud repatriation is back on the CIO agenda,” I discussed why cloud repatriation has returned to strategic conversations and why it is attracting attention across industries. The move is neither a rejection of cloud nor a reversal of the investments of the last decade. It reflects a more balanced posture, where organizations want…

AI churn has IT rebuilding tech stacks every 90 days

AI tech churn is becoming a mounting problem for enterprises, which find themselves continually rebuilding their AI infrastructures in response to evolving AI capabilities, as well as AI strategies in flux. According to a survey from AI data quality vendor Cleanlab, 70% of regulated enterprises — and 41% of unregulated organizations — replace at least…