Sustainability is a measurable quality of an enterprise to continue providing goods, services, and competent business operations over a time interval.
Management perspective of sustainability has emerged from environmental sustainability and awareness. Awareness beyond reputational and brand value from environmental sustainability extends thinking to organizational and enterprise continuity. Enterprise sustainability sees that measurable large-scale functions of the enterprise (revenue, product/supply chain, customer-facing services, internal capability/capacity, multiple domains of core operations, etc.) can be conducted over a longer period of time.
“Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” – from the Agile Manifesto
Enterprise technical staff are focused on conducting processes like innovation/development, transformation from one process to another, and implementation and deployment of technology-based functions for the enterprise. Each of these processes may involve substantial resources and time intervals (staff-millennia and material expenses), large numbers of complex human and technical connections, and significant changes to operations. The rate of change and the scope of the resources optimized are distinct from the management view of enterprise sustainability.
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