Sept. 29, 2008 - IBM is expanding its new consulting offerings with a new service to help clients create greener products, from development and manufacturing through delivery and use to end-of-life reclamation and recycling.

IBM’s Environmental Product Lifecycle Management (Environmental PLM) service provides an overall analysis of a product's lifecycle, taking into account current environmental concerns, regulations and business issues, and industry best practices. The analysis is designed to help clients build new design-for-environment capabilities and integrate them into existing processes, IBM says.

"Governments, environmental advocacy groups, and most of all consumers are demanding that companies do better, and designing a product from the start to be eco-friendly throughout its lifetime is the most effective way to do that," says Mark Wilterding, IBM's global leader for product lifecycle management consulting.

Environmental PLM joins a growing list of green consulting offerings from IBM. The company's consulting platform is based on data from a survey of c-level executives last year, which found that the majority of companies surveyed are not aligning their CSR practices with what their customers and other stakeholders expect.

To read more about IBM’s CSR survey, click here.