All Foundries

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Commodity Management & Trading

Transforming trading ecosystems through data-driven insights and secure, agile platforms that empower global commerce.

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Customer & Marketing Strategy

Reimagining customer engagement with personalized, connected experiences that build trust and long-term value.

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Digital Engineering

Turning ideas into scalable digital solutions—accelerating transformation through design, technology, and engineering excellence.

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Station Studio

Redefining mobility hubs with digital innovation to create smarter, sustainable experiences for people and businesses on the move.

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Supply Chain & Industry 5.0

Building resilient, intelligent supply networks that anticipate change and deliver efficiency with purpose.

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Sustainability

Driving responsible innovation to help organizations achieve net-zero goals and create a positive impact for future generations.

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Physical AI

Physical AI gives machines, robots and physical operations the ability to perceive their environment, decide what matters and act in real time. Factories, plants, stores and infrastructure become systems able to sense conditions, learn from them and improve on their own, closing the gap between the physical and the digital world.

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Next-Gen Infrastructure

From networks as infrastructure to connected platforms that enable critical, autonomous and intelligent operations.

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Utilities

Ecosystem Services Valuation for Utility Natural Assets

Connecting site-specific ecological evidence with a business-ready view of natural capital.

Ecosystem Services Valuation for Utility Natural Assets

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Utilities

Decarbonization Strategy for Island Power Generation

A comparative assessment of low-emission fuel pathways and the technical and economic feasibility of adapting an existing island generation fleet.

Decarbonization Strategy for Island Power Generation

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Ecosystem Services Valuation for Utility Natural Assets

Connecting site-specific ecological evidence with a business-ready view of natural capital.

Asset context

Location-specific natural assets assessed.

Service scope

Relevant ecosystem services characterized.

Valuation framework

Natural-capital methods applied.

Decision support

Findings translated for business teams.

Connecting ecosystem value to natural-capital decisions

NTT DATA carried out an ecosystem-services valuation for land and natural assets associated with an energy company. The assessment translated ecological functions into decision-relevant information for natural-capital management.

From ecological complexity to a structured valuation perspective

Objectives

Assess and value ecosystem services associated with company-owned or managed natural assets, creating a basis for integrating natural capital into management decisions.

Opportunity

Use the valuation perspective to bring natural-capital considerations into future asset-management and sustainability decisions.

Turning ecosystem evidence into business-ready insight

The work needed to preserve ecological context while producing a valuation perspective that non-ecological business teams could understand and use.

Key Challenges

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1. Local asset context
Ecosystem services are location-specific, so the assessment needed to reflect the context of the relevant land and natural assets.

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2. Multidimensional service scope
The initiative needed to account for the multidimensional nature of ecosystem services within the assessment.

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3. Consistent valuation link
Ecological data and economic valuation needed to be connected consistently.

Conceptual natural capital image showing complex ecological evidence translated into clear, decision-ready insight for ecosystem services, asset management and sustainability teams.

4. Executive usability
The findings needed to be understandable for asset, sustainability and other non-ecological business decision-makers.

Solution

A structured route from natural assets to management insight

NTT DATA moved the assessment from the physical and ecological scope of the assets to a valuation and decision-support perspective.

Natural asset characterization

Characterized the land and natural assets relevant to the assessment and their location-specific context.

Ecosystem-service assessment

Characterized the relevant ecosystem services associated with those assets.

Natural-capital valuation

Applied natural-capital and valuation methods to structure the assessment and connect ecological and economic perspectives.

Decision-oriented interpretation

Translated the findings into a decision-support perspective for asset and sustainability teams.

Impact

A stronger view of natural-capital value and dependencies

The work strengthened the energy company’s ability to understand the value and dependencies associated with its natural assets and ecosystem services.

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