Mind the maintenance gap! Christian Pedersen of IFS on how redefining innovation can change industries - and reduce energy consumption

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Too many vendors have put the sustainability focus aside - to their detriment (and to their customers'). Let's be fair: it isn't easy to reconcile the AI imperative with responsible energy consumption. But that topic deserves an airing, not silence.

I'm dismayed that ESG topics are viewed as toxic politics. I fail to see what is political about using modern tools to monitor/reduce energy consumption, improve the bottom line, improve supply chain visibility, and meet regulatory commitments. Do you?

IFS is one of the few major enterprise vendors that has not backed down from its sustainability pursuit (see: their recent announcement, IFS Launches IFS Zero, an agentic Emissions Operating System for Asset-Intensive Industries).

Enterprises are falling into the maintenance gap - and energy consumption is a consequence

Even so, I still found Christian Pedersen's recent diginomica post surprisingly bold - in the best way possible. In the post, Pedersen...

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