Setting your direction of travel toward a sustainable future
A strategy is about execution, no matter what you try to accomplish. Now that we have a sustainable IT strategy, we must define the most challenging parameters – who and when. Who will execute the strategy, and what capabilities do you need, such as people, processes, and technology? When should you execute the different components of the strategy to move from your current state to your target state?
Creating a short-term, mid-term, and long-term plan and slotting your key initiatives into respective buckets is an excellent place to start. Figure 11.11, Figure 11.12, and Figure 11.13 illustrate each workstream sustainability in IT, sustainability by IT, and IT for society with examples for each key focus area. Given that your industry and environment will look different, these examples should be viewed as inspiration, not direct advice. Establishing your GHG emissions baseline should give you a good overview of...