Green-ict participated to a morning workshop on the subject of Green-IT. Three presentations have illustrated the Green-IT concept : one on Governance, another on Website Optimization and a last one on Project Management.
2. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. A Few facts
2. Green-IT
3. Need for governance
4. Specific Case
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Green-IT @ ABE 2
3. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. A Few Facts
– Environmental pressure
– External Drivers
2. Green-IT
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
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4. The environmental pressure
• We are facing growing environmental challenges:
o Global warming,
o Resources scarcity,
o Financial & Societal Crisis
• Professional ICT and home electronics represent 2 to 3%
of GHG and are responsible for massive toxic e-waste.
• We need to reduce the environmental footprint of ICT.
• Hopefully ICT is also an enabler to a low carbon
economy. Greening BY IT
Greening OF IT
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5. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. A Few Facts
– Environmental pressure
– External Drivers
2. Green-IT
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
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6. From global to Green-IT Governance
• Hence the need for governance …
– Promotes trust in the organization and its people,
– Improves decision-making and the quality of these decisions,
– Enhances the perception of the organization among people,
– Improves the ability to mitigate risks,
– Improves stability … sustainability (financial, legal, social, industrial).
Global WTO, FMI, WEO National SSM (Malaysia)
Organization
Finance IAS, SOX Sustainability GRI, ISO 14001
IT
Pressure is increasing.
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7. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. A Few Facts
2. Green-IT
– Scope
– Challenges
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
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8. Greening By IT … 98%
A few Green-IT activities
Greening Of IT … 2 -> 3 %
Actions taken by an organization to lower IT
environmental footprint.
e.g.
Managing electrical power used by IT
infrastructure
Managing wastes and consumables used by IT
and related systems
Sustainable IT practices
Integrating and aligning with enterprise level
carbon management targets and initiatives
Limiting CPU power
…
ICT projects and products allowing a reduction
of the global environmental footprint (*).
e.g.
Environmental friendly practices (travel
optimization / reduction, ...)
Water optimization in gardening
Integrating building automation & power
management systems
Eco-driving
Home-energy monitoring
(*) GeSI evaluates to 16,5% the potential for IT to help
reducing industry GHG emissions.
IT: 3%
Other
Industries:
97%
Green of ICT
Main focus :
• Easy (operational)
• Low hanging fruits
Green by ICT
Little attention today:
• Broader scope
• Higher potential
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9. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. A Few Facts
2. Green-IT
– Scope
– Challenges
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
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10. How to make IT greener ?
some of the equations
(in) direct
consumption
Circular economy
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11. All actors in a single direction
• Operating model for the management of Green-IT
initiatives (OF,BY).
Green-IT Governance
ICT
CSR
HR
PROCUREMENT
FACILITIES
OPERATIONS ( business)
RISK/LEGAL COMMUNICATION
Finance
Frameworks & Standards Pragmatic implementation BENEFITS
Continuous improvement
Green
Initiatives
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12. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. Environmental pressure
2. Green-IT
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
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13. Implementing Green-IT: SGM
framework
• The Green-IT Strategy, Governance and
Maturity framework supports the
organization from day 1.
• Green-IT SGM is a pure governance
methodology, it implements, monitors and
controls:
– The transformation of CSR or sustainable
strategy into tactical Green-IT decisions at
departmental level,
– The convertion of tactical decisions into
operational activities,
– The Green-IT portfolio and dashboard of KPIs.
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People
Planet
Profit
14. Green’ing a FW
• Prepare to change by identifying the
right stakeholders
(out of usual IT domain of influence)
– Helps interviewing the right persons for
accurate assessment;
– Helps in identifying the right pain-killers;
– Helps identify the right persons for
communicating initiatives and manage
changes.
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15. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. Environmental pressure
2. Green-IT
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
1. Typical Case
2. Your benefits
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16. Context
Industry
Sponsor
Sustainability strategy
Governance archetype
Marketing Agency who wants to strengthen Web Marketing offering
CIO
Yes, under CSR responsibility
Decentralised governance
Demand Huge green marketing initiative @ org’s level
Want each department to evaluate how they can participate
More specifically, Mkting wants to get rid of paper
Green achievements 1. Immediate wins in datacenter operation
2. Improvement of the data management processes
3. Implementation of Green KPIs
4. Boost of homework initiative
Collateral achievements 1. Energy week (internal communication)
2. Change of behaviour between facilities and IT
3. Higher perception of IT’s contribution to Org’s mission
Status Ongoing project
Conclusions Green-IT is a company wide concern
Load (duration)
ASSESS
20 days
(2 months)
PLAN
45 days
(4 months)
IMPLEMENT
60 days
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17. Discrepencies
• Non-IT scores lower than IT
• Efficient IT, and hence quite green without knowing
• Little understanding from non-IT’ers about what IT actually does
• IT’s willingness to go further in the green direction
Green-Of
Green-By
Org's
involvement
IT's involvement
IT
non-IT
ASSESS PLAN IMPLEMENT
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18. As-Is cartography
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 MEASUREMENT
ID
Type Domain Name Lead Status Referential Exist Ref Unit Period Historic Quality Remarks
DC-1
OF
Datacenter
Datacenter
efficiency
Facilities Ongoing
COC
datacenter,
Green Grid
YES
Usage of free
cooling
Facilities Stopped
Tested in DC1, then stopped. Bad
ROI vs the move to a new
datacenter in 2015.
Move
hardware to
more efficient
datacenter
Facilities Ongoing
Yes. As the maximum energy
capacity is reached in DC1 and
DC2 (actual electricity use @
approximately 80% of total
available electricity). Usage of
collocation datacenter premises
(lower PUE, around 1,5)
Plan new
datacenter
(more
efficient)
Facilities Ongoing
Done, waiting for implementation
decision (country). Is currently a
blocking factor for energy
efficiency investments, like
dynamic cooling.
Energy
efficiency
monitoring
Facilites Ongoing PUE 1,80 YES PUE n/a Month Yes High
Yes. Objective for DC1 (1,80-1,83)
for 2011. 1,81 in January.
Objective for DC2 (1,86), 1,83 in
December 2010. For collocation,
fixed PUE of 1,5 (in contract). No
other KPI measured, an initiative
as been launched end of April by
Facilities to measure CUE et WUE.
PUE Level of
Efficiency
3,0 Very Inefficient
2,5 Inefficient
2,0 Average
1,5 Efficient
1,2 Very Efficient
ASSESS PLAN IMPLEMENT
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19. Dashboard & Roadmap
ASSESS PLAN IMPLEMENT
Indicators have
been identified
And a portfolio of projects
Is created to improve those indicators.
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20. Green-IT Governance, the zen future
1. Environmental pressure
2. Green-IT
3. From operations to governance
4. Targeted outcomes
1. Typical Case
2. Your benefits
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21. Your benefits
• The benefits are multiple and involve all
stakeholders
• Immediate ROI (both finance and environment !) and quick wins
• Improved corporate branding / image
• High shareholder value / satisfaction
• GHG and e-waste emissions reporting
• Anticipate regulations / avoid penalties
• In line with company’s CSR mission
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22. Conclusions
• Green thinking is pervasive;
• Green-IT involves many people in the
organization.
…
• Unifying frameworks do exist;
• Low-Hanging fruits can easily be
identified …
together with mid- and long- term
visionary roadmap.
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23. Your Partner in Green-IT
and sustainable business strategy
Thierry Holoffe
tho@green-
ict.com
@ThierryHoloffe
Tanguy Swinnen
tsw@green-
ict.com
@TanguySwinnen
www.green-ict.com
green@green-ict.com
@Green_ICT_Com
Green-IT Observatory
Editor's Notes
Compare 2 – 3 % w/ aviation !!Only accounting for Energy consumption.!! Scarce resourcesCO2 can be discussed; but is surely aligned with financial aspects (energy consumption) Hard to compare with impact on scarce resources when building and damages to environment when disposing … LCA Hence models do exist with Proxies.Although resource scarcity may not be a direct concern for the CIO (inter)national authorities transform their concern into regulations.
And more specifically the Need for Green Corporate governance of ITLet us zoom on EU’s situation NGOs public image pressureDèslorsquel’ITn’est pas directementsoumisàcespressions, maisquec’est au travers de l’organisationquel’ITreçoitcettepression, ilest important de s’assurerque les contriantesrégelmentairespercolentcorrectementversl’IT; ilfautdoncformaliser et assurer la bonne interaction des différentsintervenatns … c’est le coeur de la gouverance.Je ne parle pas encore de Green, (mêmesi je nommeici des rélemtnation en rapport avec la durabilité … soit le green dans un sens un peu plus large)Rk: UK… je vousrassure, il y a uneséried’initiativeseuropéennesoumondiales qui abordent le problème et aopportent des éléments de solution.
Re-inforcing again the need to orchestrate various profiles towards a single direction.Indépendamment des GHGs, celasignifieaussiquel’ITpeutêtregénérateurd’économiesopérationnellessubstanciellesGREEN-OF ITA few questions should be answered:What is priority for corporate ?Do I introduce new risks ?What are the side-effects ?Do I have enough maturity ?More?GREEN-BY ITSmart GridsSmart BuildingsSmart CitiesOptimizing transportationImproved Waste ManagementMore?
Need for all actors of the IT storyFirst two questions also highlight the need for comparing “pure CO2” and other GHGs% IT energy consumption in the servicing industry : 50 à 70 %We won’t enter here into the various models to help create some common ground for such publications; just bear in mind that although measuring Scope is not that easy to determine; not to speak when part of the computing power is virtualized to the cloud.Si l’onveut comparer différents DCs, ilestévidentqel’on a besoin d’un standard;Si l’onveutvoir son propre DC (sapropreinformatique) évoluer, il “suffit” de bien fixer son propre scope et s’ytenir.Highlight the fact that the graphic demonstrate a number of direct actors the (only) the energy consumption issue : Procurement chooses the Energy providers, Facilities build DC, Infra chooses and manages Equipments,… developers optimize CPU usage for a certain work to be achived (efficiency) while Analysts and business help making things effective.
By enlarging the thinking from pure (and limited) Green-IT to Sustainability, We enclose Finance … where the mmost obvious operational cost is energy; reducing energy consumption is fully aligned with financial performance.The Green-IT SGM framework is multidimensional :addresses 5 (IT) governance domainsanalyses the contingencies gathers various regulations under a single umbrellacalculates 5 maturity levelscomprises 4 phases keeping 3 perspectives in mind: 3PsGreen-IT when taken as part of more holistic Sustainability, becomes an enable for over-performance !!
We’ve see the biggest challenge is to align all stakeholders in a single direction. ‘have to identify the precise list of stakeholders … and maybe append that list.4 reasons:MarketingAccuracy of Assessment – because holistic topic requires global reachingPrepare ground for change management - & set up the right network of communication.Who’s responsible for what ?