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  • June 30, 2025
    Impact sourcing steers formal employment toward those historically left on the sidelines, melding social equity with enterprise performance. Yet this model’s success depends massively on a steady supply of job-ready talent. Consequently, training institutions – from government academies and CSR cohorts to vocational colleges and digital learning platforms – have shifted from the margins to becoming central to the ecosystem, translating inclusive intent into market-validated capabilities.  Across this ecosystem, demand for adaptive skills is sparking inventive pedagogy. Programs now blend online scalability with in-person mentorship, compress months of theory into high-intensity bootcamps, and embed continuous upskilling into earn-and-learn pathways, ensuring income does not pause while skills evolve. Meanwhile, widespread connectivity, cross-sector partnerships, and analytics that tether training inputs to workplace outcomes are turning previously distant communities into reliable talent reservoirs.  The Viewpoint traces this terrain – exploring institution archetypes, demand drivers, delivery logics, curriculum strategies, inclusion mechanisms, and the enabling technologies and partnerships that bind them together. It brings together high-level analysis and practical frameworks to help stakeholders navigate complexity and unlock value across the impact sourcing landscape. 
  • May 27, 2025
    Inclusive and sustainable sourcing is quickly becoming a business must-have – especially in global markets like the UK, EU, and Asia-Pacific, where enterprises face growing pressure to show progress on ESG goals. Organizations are also seeking scalable ways to drive social impact that aligns with their values, sourcing strategies, and digital transformation goals. Watch Everest Group’s experts as they spotlight the firm’s Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) pledge to impact 1 million lives through impact sourcing by 2030, creating economic opportunities by providing skills and jobs to underserved communities globally. We explored how Everest Group is helping accelerate this movement by partnering with enterprises, service providers, and ecosystem enablers to embed inclusive and sustainable sourcing into business strategies. Attendees learned actionable tactics to balance business needs with social responsibility. What questions did the webinar answer for the participants? How will impact sourcing evolve over the next 3 years – especially as AI transforms workforce needs? What role does the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) ecosystem play in enabling enterprises to create inclusive, skilled talent pipelines? How can companies align impact sourcing with their ESG, talent, and digital transformation goals – while driving measurable business outcomes?
  • May 07, 2025
    Sustainability has become a business imperative – and as regulations tighten and market expectations evolve, enterprises must adapt quickly. Watch this webinar as Everest Group experts unpacked the latest trends shaping the ESG and sustainability technology and services landscape for 2025 and into 2026. We explored key regulatory developments, emerging enterprise priorities, provider tactics, a data-driven approach to refining strategies, and practical examples of adoption in areas like sustainable IT and ESG data management. Attendees also got an early look at Everest Group’s upcoming research, helping them stay ahead in an evolving sustainability landscape. What questions did the webinar answer? What key trends, regulations, and technology shifts will shape the sustainability and ESG landscape in 2025-26? How are enterprises adopting key sustainability tech use cases to drive measurable impact? What strategic priorities should organizations focus on to stay ahead in the evolving sustainability market?
  • April 30, 2025
    This compendium profiles 17 leading sustainable engineering solutions providers. Their services include R&D for new sustainable products, smart charging solutions, and route optimization solutions across the engineering value chain. Each profile assesses the provider’s capabilities, case studies, investments, and strategic differentiators to help enterprises identify the right partners for digital industrial modernization. Scope Industry: ER&D and sustainability Geography: all Contents This report features detailed assessments, including profile overviews, key solutions, investment areas, and case studies of 17 providers that focus on sustainable engineering services.
  • April 10, 2025
    As digital technologies increasingly contribute to carbon emissions, enterprises are under increasing pressure to make their IT operations more sustainable. Regulatory mandates, evolving ESG commitments, and stakeholder expectations are pushing organizations to treat IT not just as a backend function, but as a strategic sustainability driver. Traditionally focused on energy efficiency and hardware lifecycle management, sustainable IT has expanded to encompass cloud sustainability, green software engineering, digital workplaces, and IT asset disposition. This broader scope is increasing enterprise demand for integrated, measurable, and outcome-oriented solutions. Providers are stepping up to this challenge by delivering sustainability-focused technology transformation services aligning with business and sustainability priorities. In this report, we explore the evolution of sustainable IT strategies, enterprise adoption trends, and providers’ key role in enabling the transition. We examine key solution areas such as cloud optimization, carbon-aware application development, sustainable IT procurement, and circularity-driven IT operations to offer a practical playbook for providers supporting client-centric sustainability journeys. Scope All industries and geographies Contents In this report, we: Analyze enterprise adoption trends in sustainable IT Examine how leading IT providers are enabling enterprises to embed sustainability across their technology landscape Explore a wide range of sustainable IT solutions – spanning cloud optimization, green software engineering, sustainable procurement, and IT asset disposition Highlight how these solutions help organizations meet their environmental and social goals and accelerate their journey toward environmentally responsible digital transformation Memeberships Sustainability Technology and Services Sourcing and Vendor Management
  • Feb. 28, 2025
    Sustainability is no longer a corporate compliance mandate; it is a competitive advantage that improves operational performance. Several enterprises on their sustainability journey struggle to make their IT infrastructure, particularly data centers, more sustainable. Data centers power modern economies but consume large energy and resource quantities, leaving significant environmental footprint. Rising data volumes, AI adoption, the expected gen AI boom, carbon neutrality commitments, and climate change are driving data centers toward sustainability. What makes data centers sustainable? This Viewpoint answers this question by identifying a sustainable data center’s six key characteristics. These characteristics are energy efficiency, renewable energy use, advanced cooling systems, effective waste management, reduced embodied carbon, and emerging technologies across data center operations. In this Viewpoint, we explore a sustainable data center’s key characteristics and notable investments by data center operators and hyperscalers. The report highlights implications for enterprises aiming to enhance their data centers’ sustainability and improve their corporate sustainability performance. Scope All industries and geographies Contents In this report, we: Examine a sustainable data center’s key characteristics Identify market trends shaping the sustainable data center market Analyze implications for enterprises working to improve their sustainability performance Membership(s) Sustainability Technology and Services Cloud and Infrastructure Services Sourcing and Vendor Management
  • Jan. 16, 2025
    In the era of rapidly evolving consumer preferences, rapid technology advances, and increased environmental consciousness, sustainability has become vital for engineering firms. In response, companies have been altering their product value chains and processes to align them with essential sustainability goals. Companies are significantly spending their R&D budgets on sustainability, from developing electric vehicles and alternative fuels to changing engineering designs to make circular products. What began as sustainability in engineering has now evolved into engineering for sustainability. In this sustainability endeavor, enterprises seek providers’ support to implement greener engineering strategies. These providers offer innovative product development, process engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions, helping enterprises launch sustainable products, enhance operational efficiency, reduce emissions, and achieve broader sustainability goals. In this report, we examine the current sustainable engineering services market, highlighting trends and key drivers shaping demand-supply dynamics. The report analyzes 17 sustainable engineering service providers based on their service focus, key IP/solutions, domain investments, and demonstrated market proof points. Scope All industries and geographies This assessment is based on Everest Group’s annual RFI process for the calendar year 2024, interactions with leading sustainable engineering service providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing analysis of the sustainability services market Contents In this report, we: Explore the sustainable engineering services market Examine key factors and technologies shaping the sustainable engineering services market Analyze buyer adoption trends Assess sustainable engineering service providers’ capabilities Membership(s) Engineering Research and Development Sustainability Technology and Services Sourcing and Vendor Management
  • Jan. 09, 2025
    As businesses navigate a rapidly evolving technology landscape, sustainable IT has become a key focus for organizations to minimize their environmental impact. IT infrastructure is a significant emission source, making sustainable practices essential. Advanced technologies, such as generative AI, bring new challenges with their intensive energy demands for high-performance computing and storage. Adding to the complexity, organizations must address hidden emissions, particularly Scope 3 emissions from public and hybrid cloud solutions, which are difficult to measure and manage. Addressing these challenges requires collaboration with credible IT service providers who can implement innovative strategies to reduce emissions, optimize IT estates, and enhance operational efficiencies. Sustainable IT is no longer a peripheral concern but a business imperative for organizations to balance environmental stewardship with technology advances. Enterprises must select partners who integrate sustainability principles in IT solutions and offer IT decarbonization, sustainable software development, sustainable digital workplace, and circular IT services. In this report, we explore the current sustainable IT services market, highlighting the trends and key drivers shaping demand-supply dynamics. The report analyzes 21 sustainability IT service providers based on their service focus, key IP/solutions, domain investments, and demonstrated market proof points. Scope All industries and geographies This assessment is based on Everest Group’s annual RFI process for the calendar year 2024, interactions with leading sustainable IT service providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing analysis of the sustainability services market Contents In this report, we Explore the sustainable IT services market Examine key factors and technologies shaping the sustainable IT services market Analyze buyer adoption trends Assess sustainable IT service providers’ capabilities Membership(s) Sustainability Technology and Services Sourcing and Vendor Management
  • Dec. 31, 2024
    As sustainability becomes increasingly integral to corporate strategy, ESG data management providers’ capabilities are emerging as essential for organizations to enhance their performance and accountability. Today, stakeholders demand transparency regarding ESG practices, and these platforms offer advanced solutions that facilitate robust data management processes. By delivering vital sustainability performance insights, they enable companies to identify risks and opportunities while ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory standards. Stringent regulatory frameworks, such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), drive the evolving ESG data management landscape. These frameworks require comprehensive disclosure of sustainability practices. As public awareness of environmental issues increases, organizations must adopt effective data management processes to meet compliance requirements and improve operational efficiencies. This shift highlights the importance of integrating sustainability into core business practices. In this report, we analyze 26 ESG data management providers’ capabilities, including their platform offerings, key IP/solutions, domain investments, and case studies. The report equips organizations with insights to select tailored ESG data management solutions that align with their unique needs. It also empowers companies to advance sustainability initiatives and drive meaningful operational change. Scope All industries and geographies This assessment is based on Everest Group’s annual RFI process for the calendar year 2024, interactions with leading ESG data management platform providers, client reference checks, and an ongoing analysis of the ESG data management platform market Contents In this report, we evaluate 26 ESG data management platform provider profiles and include: ESG data management platform market trends Key factors and technologies shaping the ESG data management platform market An overview of providers’ vision, presence across enterprise segments and geographies, key solutions / intellectual property, partnerships, and recent developments in capabilities Case studies highlighting ESG data management solutions implemented by providers Membership(s) Sustainability Technology and Services Outsourcing Excellence
  • Dec. 27, 2024
    The impact sourcing ecosystem is rapidly expanding due to the growing interest in sustainable and socially responsible business practices. Enterprises and providers are increasingly incorporating diverse and underserved talent into their operations due to cost efficiency, access to specialized talent, and alignment with ESG and SDG objectives. Traditional providers dominate hiring volumes, while specialists see steady growth in revenue and headcount as they refine talent initiatives and partner with NGOs and educational institutions. Buyers recognize the dual value of cost benefits and corporate citizenship, advocating for more robust reporting and impact sourcing policies’ disclosure. In response, providers are investing in enhanced training programs, certifications, and technology upskilling, enabling impact workers to transition to more complex, higher-value roles. Despite generative AI’s disruptive potential concerns, agentic AI emerges as a promising tool to empower the impact workforce. Key market trends include the CXM industry’s increasing contribution to impact sourcing revenue, growing adoption of impact workers in MEA and APAC regions, and alignment with regulatory frameworks promoting fair labor practices. Governments support impact sourcing through incentives and regulations, while providers adopt inclusive hiring strategies and offer tailored employee support to complement workforce diversity and drive social impact. In this report, we explore macroeconomic drivers, buyer feedback, and generative AI’s influence on the impact sourcing space. Africa stands poised to lead the global impact sourcing growth, showing this approach’s transformative potential in fostering a purpose-driven and sustainable business landscape. The report aims to enable enterprises and providers to incorporate impact sourcing and other inclusive talent management strategies in their organizations. Scope Broad industry with a focus on impact sourcing talent strategy Geography: global Impact sourcing programs of both impact sourcing specialists and traditional service providers This report is based on primary and secondary data collection, conversations with market participants (buyers, outsourcing service providers, and impact sourcing specialists), and fact-based research Contents In this report, we analyze: The concept of impact sourcing and the comprehensive impact sourcing market landscape, including market size, trends, and talent portfolio Impact sourcing’s talent management practices across the hire-to-retire cycle Buyers’ take on impact sourcing Impact sourcing engagement case studies Technology’s role on the impact sourcing market and the future of impact sourcing programs Memberships This Market Report is available to All Memberships