Adoption
Promote principles and behaviours that support green information technology.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Adoption at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Start the informal sharing of ICT sustainability knowledge and its use among key individuals and managers within ICT.
- Outcome
- People begin to see the case for sustainable ICT and its adoption by IT.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Encourage the informal sharing of ICT sustainability knowledge and its adoption through team events, informal training and other communication channels.
- Outcome
- Sustainable ICT successes are communicated across ICT.
- Metrics
- # of downloads of sustainability material.
- # of sustainability success stories published.
- 3Intermediate
- Practices
- Define sustainable ICT targets for individual employees, and across IT and some other business units.
- Conduct regular reviews to assess progress.
- Outcome
- Individuals, IT and some other business units, are motivated and incentivized to meet Sustainable ICT performance targets.
- Metrics
- % of roles with sustainability targets defined.
- % of employees who meet sustainability targets.
- % of remuneration dependent on sustainability performance.
- % of budget dependent on sustainability performance.
- 4Advanced
- Practices
- Measure and recognize the success of each Business unit's sustainable ICT performance across the organization.
- Set up a formal mentoring network for Sustainable ICT.
- Outcome
- Individuals and Business units across the organization are motivated and incentivized to exceed and redefine more challenging Sustainable ICT performance targets.
- Metrics
- # of rewards and recognitions for sustainability.
- % improvement in business unit sustainability performance metrics.
- # of mentors (sustainability).
- # of mentees (sustainability).
- # of suggestions for ICT sustainability improvements.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Empower and encourage individuals and business units across the business ecosystem to develop innovative sustainable ICT practices (akin to Six Sigma for quality).
- Outcomes
- Opportunities to improve sustainable ICT are considered in every decision (self-sustaining rather than a top-down, mandated approach).
- Best practices on sustainable ICT skills are developed and shared as part of the future direction for sustainable ICT development.
- Metrics
- # of sustainability best practices adopted as industry standard.
- # of industry-awards for innovative sustainable ICT practices.