Welcome from the newest blogger on the Avaya blogroll. My name is Wilson Korol and I am the new Sustainability Business Leader here at Avaya, coming over from Nortel in the acquisition that took place in December 2009. My contributions to the avaya.com blog will focus on green and sustainability in the corporate setting, with particular attention paid to the tech sector. As you are surely aware, green is a big topic, and getting bigger seemingly every day/month/year. As a starting point, I will be looking at topics such as how and where we work, the lifecycle of products from design to disposal, climate change, and the opportunity for ICT to enable the world’s response to this challenge. I intentionally like to define sustainability/green in broad strokes; it keeps things more lively.
I want to emphasize that I am not just going to highlight Avaya’s green performance and excellence. I am always striving to be as transparent as possible for this type of platform, and want to spend a lot of time sharing the process and journey of becoming more sustainable as a company. There are several reasons this is important: 1) it is more interesting, 2) I hope to mine the readers for good ideas and solutions to issues we are working, and 3) the path to sustainability for a company is one that will never be fully complete, as you can always re-dedicate energy and resources to using resources more efficiently, whatever those resources may be.
One last point about this blog: I am very hopeful that we are able to have some good two-way dialogue about green business. I ran a blog called greenroots over at Nortel and interactions with folks on that site were very interesting and enriching. In several instances comments on the blog helped steer our policy and projects in a new direction, which is what we are after here. Moving forward, I hope we can replicate that dialogue, only at much higher rates.
In closing, welcome to this new sustainability blog. It is great to be here and I am looking forward to rich dialogue.
