Green profits aren’t pie in the sky—they’re already showing up on the balance sheets of leading companies. These 5 strategies help develop new competencies to become greener and more profitable at the same time:

1. Attack Waste
2. Be proactive
3. Involve the entire company
4. Practice continuous improvement
5. Build an information strategy with data you already have

An enhanced bitumen separation cell solution enabled Suncor Energy to recover hundreds of barrels of bitumen a day that once went into tailings ponds.

Without changing their process, Suncor increased:

• Environmental benefits
• Salvaged bitumen
• Accuracy
• Reliability

Wind energy is increasingly looked to as a source of renewable, green energy.

In most wind farms, there’s an abundance of data flowing from the generating assets to a central location.

You need an intelligent information approach that links technology to your existing data, people and processes—providing the true power for making decisions.

Optimal use of resources can be viewed as using the minimum amount required to do the job. By definition, the optimal use of energy requires us to operate as close as possible to constraint, without violating it, since violating these constraints represents risk to safety, equipment or the environment.

These 5 steps will enable you to get closer to your operating constraints and reap the bottom line and environmental benefits.