The Swedish Courts Administration digitizes with Stratsys sustainability solution

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Maria Svanberg
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Are you curious about what the digitization process of sustainability work can look like in an authority? In this customer case, the Swedish Courts Administration's Ann Härelind and Peter Gustafsson explain how the authority works with digitization of the Environmental Management System.

The background

The Swedish National Courts Administration has been working with Stratsys tools for sustainability work for a year. To get an insight into how the authority has organized its sustainability work, we have talked to Ann and Peter. Both Ann and Peter are involved in the organization's environmental and sustainability issues, Ann in her role as business strategist and work with the Swedish National Courts Administration's management process, and Peter in his capacity as Environmental Coordinator and Head of Unit.

How does the Swedish Courts Administration work with sustainability?

- Since the Swedish National Courts Administration has been working with its management process in Stratsys for many years, it was natural to supplement it with Stratsys' sustainability solution for the work with Agenda 2030 and the Swedish National Courts Administration's environmental management system, says Peter. We work mainly towards the goals of sustainable energy and sustainable consumption and production, but we have also incorporated our work on gender mainstreaming into the platform.

The agency chose to develop the sustainability solution based on its own management process to make it easier for users. Ann and Peter say that the recognition factor made it easy to get started with the work. The users are satisfied and the system has received a good response in the business.

- We are currently meeting with the management teams of the various departments to help them develop activities based on the common goals we have developed in the Environmental Management System, Peter continues.

What are your biggest challenges in working with sustainability?

- It's a challenge to engage the whole organization, even though there is a lot of interest in environmental and sustainability issues, says Peter. We've done the basic work, now we need to start up the machine and get everyone on board. We're doing this primarily by establishing the work in the management teams in the various departments and letting them take more responsibility for the environmental goals and involve the employees. It has gone very well so far and there is great commitment throughout the organization, now it's just a matter of keeping it all the way out.

How did you work with sustainability before you had Stratsys?

- We have worked with environmental management for many years, but the coordination did not work optimally before, Peter continues. Now we have a better structure for the organization's basic work and new conditions for moving forward with environmental and sustainability issues. We are used to having environmental thinking in everything we do, but with Stratsys we also get help to structure and make the work visible. We have chosen to have complete transparency in Stratsys, the entire organization can follow the work towards our common environmental goals.

Why did you choose Stratsys?

The Swedish National Courts Administration has been using Stratsys for a long time in its work with operational management, and most people in the organization were already used to using the system. Ann says that it was therefore an easy journey when the agency decided to buy the sustainability solution for Agenda 2030.

For us, being able to adapt the sustainability product to our management system was a major success factor.


- In the future, I believe that the report function can be valuable, Peter continues. "Previously I had to cut and paste in PowerPoint, now I can easily produce a report directly in the system. I'm looking forward to that when it comes time to report in the future.

Do you have any tips for other authorities on the theme of sustainability?

- Several authorities have contacted us because they are interested in our environmental management system and how we have digitized the work. We are very pleased with Stratsys and what we have achieved in the sustainability solution, says Ann. "We have really seen the effects of digitizing the work with environmental management.

- We have worked according to the principle that it should be as simple as possible for the users. Since the sustainability solution is similar to our own management process, it has worked well from the start. We have had a good commitment from the employees and focused on getting started with the work step by step. An important success factor has probably been not to do everything at once, but to start with simpler tasks and move forward one step at a time," concludes Peter.

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