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Please join me in congratulating Craig Wentworth on his promotion to Research Director.
Readers of UKHotViews and members of our subscription and advisory services will be familiar with Craig’s work, which spans the SustainabilityViews and PublicSectorViews research programmes. In the latter, he is our research lead for Education, Local Government, and Social Value.
In particular, Craig has built a rich body of research examining the intersection of technology and sustainability. He is the master of ‘joining the dots’ and deciphering swathes of data to explain the trends and emerging opportunities. Craig produces creative outputs that inform and inspire (check out his latest podcasts below*), giving our clients the detail and confidence they need to edge ahead of the competition.
Craig joined TechMarketView around two years ago, and he works with the rest of the analyst team in producing research that is founded on high-quality and unique data sets. Today, he is launching his latest report: Sustainability Technology Activity Index 2025 – The global view, available only for members of SustainabilityViews clients.
Craig says: “The Sustainability Technology Activity Index lies at the heart of our SustainabilityViews research, delivering essential market intelligence for suppliers and tech users navigating the rapidly evolving sustainability tech landscape. By tracking the sustainability activities of over 2,000 companies worldwide, our detailed analysis of market trends across multiple industries reveals where the immediate commercial opportunities are and which sectors require longer-term investment.
Customers are using the Index to identify the high-growth use case areas and where the suppliers are focusing their efforts (and with whom). I am typically working with our clients on projects that leverage the Index’s rich data and unique analysis, including the identification of partnership and M&A opportunities.”
If you would like to bring Craig into your strategic thinking around sustainability or appear on one of his podcasts, you can contact him here.
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Posted by Kate Hanaghan at '09:30'
In an era where environmental imperatives collide with technological innovation and policy rhetoric, understanding who's doing what (with whom, and how they’re benefitting) in sustainability tech has become mission-critical. TechMarketView today launches its comprehensive Sustainability Technology Activity Index 2025, with The global view report – tracking over 900 milestone activities from a watchlist of 2,000+ organisations worldwide.
This isn't another aspirational sustainability report which tracks some of the money to suggest what might happen, or surveys people to find out what they’d like to happen. Instead, the Index captures what's actually going on globally (from pilot launches to production deployments, from strategic partnerships to scaled implementations), analysed across 17 industry sectors and 15 sustainability use cases.
Armed with this wealth of unique, proprietary data, we highlight the hotspots of use case activity; which suppliers are dominating where and why; what technology combinations offer the best solutions to which problems; whether sector markets are mature or emerging; and what that all means in terms of trends, predictions, and recommendations (for both suppliers and tech user organisations).
For technology suppliers, the Index provides essential competitive intelligence. It reveals where rivals are focusing efforts, which sectors offer immediate commercial opportunities, and where consolidation is likely in a market that remains surprisingly fragmented despite the dominance of enterprise tech giants. Microsoft may top the global rankings in terms of sustainability activity, but the Top 10 suppliers collectively account for just 12.4% of total activity – signalling significant opportunity for specialists and new entrants alike.
Technology users gain equally valuable insights. The Index cuts through vendor marketing to show which solutions peers are actually implementing, which suppliers have proven expertise in specific sectors, and crucially, which technologies deliver demonstrable results. With ESG reporting dominating use cases (at 27.6% of activities), organisations can see how compliance requirements are driving adoption patterns whilst operational applications gain ground.
The research also reveals how sustainability is transitioning from peripheral concern to core business imperative, with analytics appearing in nearly two-thirds of all initiatives. This data-driven approach signals market maturity as organisations move beyond measurement towards actionable intelligence.
Whether you're positioning solutions or selecting suppliers, the Index provides the evidence base for strategic decisions in a rapidly evolving market (against a backdrop of increasing climate stress) where greenwashing is no longer an option.
Companion reports in the Index series (coming soon) will take a detailed look at the domestic market for sustainability technology in particular – analysing the impact and implications of 370 milestone activities with UK relevance; plus a deep dive into the market shaping trends and predictions summarised in these reports.
SustainabilityViews subscribers can download Sustainability Technology Activity Index 2025 – The global view now. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Jean-Luc de Jonge to find out how you can access the research.
Posted by Craig Wentworth at '08:54'
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More than 20,000 civil servants across numerous departments took part in a government-led trial using Microsoft’s GenAI Office 365 Copilot to support their daily work – with early results showing time savings equivalent to nearly 2 working weeks per person, per year.
Civil servants across departments including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), HMRC, Home Office (HO) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) were given M365 Copilot for three months (from Sep to Dec 2024), using it to draft documents, summarise meetings, cut through jargon and streamline consultations, and in specific roles such as Work Coaches speeding up support for job seekers.
Trial participants saved an average of 26 minutes a day when using M365 Copilot, which some rough maths equates to around about 5% in time saved based on a regular working week. Results were consistent across grades and professions, with differences observed in how the tool was used and where benefits were realised. Over 70% of users agreed that M365 Copilot reduced time spent searching for information, performing mundane tasks, and increased time spent on more strategic activities.
These are not really results that will blow anybody away, but do highlight that wide scale benefits can be achieved using even generalist GenAI tools like Microsoft Copilot. Even bigger gains are likely to be had when more tailored and sophisticated tools are adopted, of course that is contingent on the government investing quickly and at scale in proven AI tools, something so far that it has been slow to do.
TechMarketView subscribers can read our further analysis, and how this aligns with the UK governments broader plans for adoption of AI tools in *UKHotViewsExtra* Government trial shows AI could save civil servants 2 weeks a year.
Posted by Simon Baxter at '10:43'
The latest episode in TechMarketView's series of Totally Sust podcasts sees SustainabilityViews’ Research Director, Craig Wentworth, interview Sam Jones (SVP of Health, Life Sciences and Manufacturing for the UK & Ireland at Atos) and Martin Keane (Head of Digital at technology innovation centre CPI) about bringing sustainable manufacturing to pharma through IT/OT digital transformation.
Tune in to discover how their partnership tackles a range of sustainability challenges – from reducing clinical trial waste through real-time product release, to optimising energy consumption based on grid carbon intensity (leveraging Scotland's abundant wind energy, in particular). Tune in to learn how AI-powered feedback loops can enact changes on the factory floor, and how to overcome cultural barriers in IT/OT convergence.
CPI's Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre facility (a collaboration between CPI, the University of Strathclyde, UK Research & Innovation, Scottish Enterprise, and founding industry partners AstraZeneca and GSK) provides a real-world pharma factory environment for testing integrated solutions in action. Its architecture blueprint, offering a standardised roadmap for sustainable digital transformation, is available to download here.
A 6-minute snippet of the podcast is available to stream for free now on SoundCloud and Spotify (or you can play it in the widget below).
Subscribers to our SustainabilityViews research stream can stream or download the full 26-minute version of the episode. If you are not yet a subscriber, or are unsure if your company has a subscription, please contact Jean-Luc de Jonge to find out how you can access the research.
Posted by Craig Wentworth at '09:34'
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The UK's Strategic Defence Review has been published, and beneath the headlines about increased spending and NATO commitments lies something more significant: an ambitious technology transformation agenda that could reshape the defence market. However, the word 'could' carries considerable weight in this sentence, given the MOD's track record on complex technical integration.
The scale of transformation envisioned is unprecedented. The MOD is proposing a "digital targeting web" connecting sensors and weapons across all domains at machine speed, while the Army alone plans a '20-40-40' mix where 20% crewed platforms control 40% autonomous systems and 40% consumable assets. With £2.9bn annually ringfenced for novel technologies, new regional tech clusters planned, and the Royal Navy emerging as a major beneficiary through autonomous fleet development, the opportunities extend far beyond traditional defence suppliers.
But significant questions remain. With nine out of ten defence cross-service enabling programmes currently rated amber or red, procurement averaging 6.5 years for projects above £20m, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warning of "chunky tax rises" needed to fund commitments, the gap between ambition and delivery capability is stark. NATO's reportedly planned 5% GDP spending target would make even the UK's 3% ambition look modest.
In our latest UKHotViewsExtra - Strategic Defence Review 2025: A technology transformation agenda - we analyse which sectors stand to benefit most, what the MOD is proposing to ensure the success of the proposed technical architecture, considering previous struggles to achieve information advantage, and whether this represents genuine transformation or follows the familiar pattern of ambitious digital visions that have struggled to materialise.
TechMarketView subscribers can read the in-depth analysis now. If you are not yet a subscriber or are unsure if your organisation has a corporate subscription with us, contact Jean-Luc De Jonge to find out how to access this and more insightful research.
Posted by Georgina O'Toole at '09:31'
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