Alignment
Align green information technology objectives between the IT function and the rest of the business.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Alignment at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Start to identify who should participate in the sustainable ICT team/office.
- Outcome
- A targeted set of people to lead the alignment of sustainable ICT.
- Metric
- # of people to form the sustainable ICT Team/Office.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Create a sustainable ICT Team/Office to review which ICT sustainability objectives that can be aligned to business needs.
- Outcome
- ICT aligns the ICT sustainability objectives to the needs of the business as opportunities arise.
- Metric
- # of ICT Sustainability objectives linked to the organizations sustainability needs.
- 3Intermediate
- Practices
- Have the Sustainable ICT Team/Office review and agree a full set of short and medium term objectives for ICT Sustainability with the some other business units (e.g. carbon footprint reduction, costs, power efficiency, asset disposal, etc.).
- Set benchmarks to establish key areas for ICT sustainability development.
- Outcome
- Decision-makers in ICT and some other business units, prioritize the relevant sustainable ICT initiatives and link these to their own sustainability strategy.
- Metrics
- # of ICT project approval requests the include Sustainable ICT criteria.
- # of ICT project approvals that are aligned to business sustainability objectives.
- 4Advanced
- Practices
- Agree and integrate longer term sustainability ICT objectives to business value dials across the organization.
- This could be implemented as part of a Corporate Sustainability Scorecard.
- Outcome
- Decision making for sustainability is improved by prioritizing ICT-enabled initiatives which most benefit the business.
- Metric
- # of business value dials incorporating a sustainable ICT perspective/contribution.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Have the executive board review and set ICT sustainability objectives as part of its review of the value chains across the business ecosystem.
- Outcome
- Sustainable ICT strategy is visible and consistently aligned to customer and partners/suppliers objectives.
- Metric
- # of Sustainable ICT objectives that support the sustainability business strategy, across the value chains.