One of the things I enjoy doing is designing and building apps and dashboards. I’ve been building them for about 4 years, always with a focus on usability and impact. I designed and built my website (this one 🥰) starting from a basic template. The final product looks very different from what the original template offers.
A custom tool can help you communicate your sustainability goals, the progress made toward achieving them, and the milestones you have already reached. It can be designed and tailored to serve different stakeholders without the need to build multiple tools. For example, your customers and the general community might only be interested in the steps you are taking to reduce environmental waste. Your bank or other financial providers could be more focused on how your recent move to offer low-carbon products has impacted your revenue in the last financial year. As someone currently in the job market, I’d love to know what measures you are taking to empower your employees. Stakeholders don’t have to wait for the next sustainability report to access this kind of information. They can view it in real time.
The tool can pull in data from storage, analyse it and display it in tables and charts. Additionally, it can contain various types of content to target different kinds of audiences, such as YouTube videos, short TikTok clips, news articles, blog posts, or even animated videos that tell your sustainability story. It can be designed and built to be accessible on any device.
Simplicity always wins. A simple tool will help you communicate with your stakeholders effectively.