Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders : Design and Implement Sustainable IT Practices and Unlock Sustainable Business Opportunities

Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders Design and Implement Sustainable IT Practices and Unlock Sustainable Business Opportunities

At a critical point in human history, this book presents proven ways to gain the skills needed to develop sustainable IT practices and set yourself apart as a progressive technology leader Key Features Execute a sustainable IT strategy with proven methods and real-world use cases Progress as a susta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sundberg, Niklas (-)
Otros Autores: Barnekow, Helene
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited 2022.
Materias:
Sustainable development > Information technology.
Environmental sciences > Information technology.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009686033006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Titlte Page
  • Copyright and Credits
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Why Is Sustainable IT Important?
  • Chapter 1: Our Most Significant Challenge Ahead
  • Climate change - our most significant challenge ahead
  • What are GHG emissions?
  • How did we get here?
  • Bending the curve
  • History of sustainability
  • Sustainability trends
  • The Paris Agreement
  • EU Taxonomy
  • Sustainable finance
  • GHG Protocol Corporate Standard
  • Science-based targets
  • Innovate or die
  • Transitioning to a circular economy
  • The well-kept secret of the IT industry
  • Summary
  • Further resources
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2: Rise of Sustainable IT
  • What is sustainable IT?
  • Sustainability in IT, sustainability by IT, and IT for society
  • Sustainable IT GHG emission taxonomy
  • Corporate sustainability and sustainable IT
  • Drivers for a sustainable IT agenda
  • ESG considerations for IT
  • Financial value
  • Non-financial value
  • Risks
  • Employee engagement
  • Readiness
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Part 2: What Are Sustainable IT Practices?
  • Chapter 3: The Fundamental Building Blocks of a Sustainable IT Practice
  • The unprecedented growth of IT
  • Sustainable IT reference model
  • Data centers and the cloud
  • Applications and data
  • IT hardware management
  • Energy resource management
  • Leveraging buying power
  • Sustainability by IT
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4: Data Center and Cloud
  • The information backbone of our connected world
  • The sustainability benefits of moving from on-premises to cloud computing
  • Definition of the cloud
  • The value of the cloud
  • Sustainable IT benefits from cloud computing
  • Location
  • Energy consumption
  • Life cycle assessment
  • Data center sustainability score card
  • The rise of the net-positive cloud.
  • Choosing a sustainable cloud service provider
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Alibaba Cloud
  • Oracle
  • Tencent Cloud
  • IBM
  • Cloud vendor report cards
  • The power of alliances
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5: Application and Data
  • The world runs on software
  • Transforming Enterprise Architecture to help achieve sustainability targets
  • Turning a sustainability strategy into action with Enterprise Architecture
  • Transforming business architecture with the UN's SDGs
  • Optimizing application and data architectures in the cloud using best practice frameworks
  • A pragmatic Enterprise Architecture framework for sustainability tracking
  • Application portfolio management
  • Application rationalization process
  • Application assessment criteria
  • TIME analysis
  • Sustainable software development
  • Choosing energy-efficient programming languages
  • Sustainable SDLC
  • Measuring your CO2 spend in the cloud
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 6: IT Hardware Management
  • Understanding the impact of IT hardware equipment
  • Product design and manufacturing
  • Product lifetime expansion
  • Energy consumption
  • Finite resources and hazardous substances
  • End-of-life management
  • Circular IT hardware management
  • Social responsibility - a key unlocking circular transition
  • Making a business case for change
  • ITAD - the rise of a new circular industry
  • Services
  • Global footprint and service availability
  • Process
  • Data sanitization
  • Why and how does ITAD fit with the Electrolux sustainability strategy?
  • Choosing a sustainable IT hardware provider
  • Lenovo
  • HP
  • Dell
  • Apple
  • Acer
  • Asus
  • IT hardware vendor report cards
  • IT hardware sustainability scorecard
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7: Energy Resource Management.
  • Transitioning to a low-carbon future
  • The energy mix
  • Energy and foreign policy
  • The importance of energy security in ICT
  • Energy consumption from IT hardware
  • The calculation for the energy consumption and carbon emission of a notebook
  • The calculation for the energy consumption and carbon emission of a desktop
  • The calculation for the energy consumption and carbon emission of a server
  • Summary of energy consumption and carbon emission of ICT devices
  • Understanding your energy consumption patterns
  • Step-change to energy resource efficiency
  • Buy resource-efficient hardware
  • Leverage low-carbon source
  • Take advantage of system power management settings
  • Going virtual
  • Exploring smart technologies
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 8: Leveraging Your Buying Power
  • Drivers for sustainable IT vendor and procurement management
  • Essential IT sustainability requirements
  • Corporate commitments
  • Environmental
  • Social
  • Product and service
  • Circularity
  • Create a market for sustainable IT
  • Address the hotspots
  • The process
  • The ABC for sustainable IT procurement
  • Sustainable IT vendor management
  • Step 1 - establishing and maintaining the program
  • Step 2 - onboarding and divesting vendors
  • Step 3 - sustainable IT value realization
  • Step 4 - vendor life cycle management
  • Vendor management sustainability scorecard
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 9: Sustainability by IT
  • Unlocking a more sustainable future
  • Carbon emission reporting
  • ESG risk management
  • Sustainable sourcing and manufacturing
  • Environmentally friendly transportation
  • Energy-efficient buildings
  • Energy resource management
  • Hybrid work
  • Eco-friendly travel
  • Leveraging and promoting e-services
  • Product-as-a-Service (PaaS)
  • From ownership to usership.
  • Embracing the subscription economy
  • Taking the plunge with a first initiative - Kids Btwin bike subscriptions
  • Understanding the evolution of subscription business models - shifting from products to subscriber-centric services
  • Let's be concrete - how to get started
  • Moving forward - outcomes and what is next
  • Scaling with the associated digital landscape - driving positive IT environmental economics
  • The need to increase the pace of innovation
  • What is a hackathon?
  • Citizen-driven innovation
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Bibliography
  • Part 3: How Do You Accelerate Sustainable IT?
  • Chapter 10: Get Started Today
  • The sustainable IT maturity model©
  • The five dimensions of the sustainable IT maturity model©
  • The five maturity levels of the sustainable IT maturity model©
  • Sustainable IT maturity model assessment
  • Understand impact areas
  • Data center and cloud
  • IT hardware
  • Energy management
  • IT asset disposition
  • Network traffic
  • Establishing your sustainable IT emission baseline
  • Introduction
  • Parameters and assumptions
  • Setting up the emissions table
  • IT asset registry
  • Emission baseline single year
  • Simulating your target state
  • Multi-year simulation
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 11: Putting a Sustainable IT Strategy in Place
  • Introduction to the sustainable IT strategic planning process
  • Sustainable IT strategy (input)
  • Sustainable IT strategic planning process
  • Sustainable IT strategy (output)
  • IT and sustainability - part of the problem? Part of the solution!
  • Creating your own sustainable IT strategy
  • Materiality assessment
  • Enterprise sustainability goals and priorities
  • Enterprise sustainability strategy
  • Sustainable IT strategy
  • Setting your direction of travel toward a sustainable future
  • Summary
  • Bibliography.
  • Chapter 12: From Strategy to Execution - Lead with Purpose and Deliver Progress Quickly
  • Courageous sustainable leadership
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Uniting technology and sustainability
  • Sustainability at scale - translating strategy into action
  • Delivering on the sustainability agenda through sustainable technology
  • The 5Cs to secure successful digital transformation
  • Bringing everything together
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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