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Against a backdrop of ever-increasing digital impact on the environment, IT Departments are in the front line when it comes to meeting the challenge of responsible corporate development.

How can you integrate CSR into your IT activities?

In the age of ecological transition, the IT Department plays a key role in establishing a framework for responsible growth for all the company’s activities.
But while IT Departments and Business Units are convinced of the benefits of Green IT, implementing it is far from straightforward.

The definition of a sustainable IT strategy is an essential prerequisite, enabling companies to control, limit and ideally reduce their ecological footprint using appropriate tools and solutions and improved sourcing.

In addition, a commitment to a responsible digital environment will help to mobilise teams around a unifying project (ecological sobriety, social inclusion), to innovate by developing new sustainable models and products, and to reduce investment and operating costs while improving the level of service and user experience. A winning combination for the company.

Once the intentions have been defined, implementation remains complex and involves efforts and resources that need to be maintained over time. A Green IT approach requires you to challenge yourself, innovate and invest in multiple dimensions:

  • Equipment & infrastructures: optimize, pool, rationalize and manage equipment and infrastructures, their water and energy consumption (e.g. data centers), their socio-environmental impact and their lifecycle (with particular emphasis on extending equipment longevity and infrastructure reparability).​
  • Software & Cloud: monitor the environmental debt created by data consumption and storage (exploiting ever-greater data volumes and computing capacities) and deployment on more and more devices.​
  • Uses & functionalities: adopt more virtuous practices both in the eco-design of new products and services and in everyday practices.
  • Sustainable sourcing: implement responsible IT purchasing guidelines and a supplier selection criteria grid (usefulness, scalability, reputability, eco-design, social and economic impact). 
  • Organization: redesign and support the entire organization to optimize human ecological impact (geographical proximity and travel optimization, telecommuting/flexible working hours, employee training/awareness-raising, etc.).
  • Monitoring & communication: define key indicators (e.g. carbon footprint) and provide input for internal/external communication and extra-financial reporting (CSR).​
  • Tools & calculation methods: adopt tools and methods for calculating the ecological impact of the company’s activities (e.g. carbon footprint, environmental performance index, life-cycle analysis, etc.).
  • Standards & compliance: integrate best practices from existing frameworks such as ISO 26000 and ISO 20400 (deployment of a CSR policy and best practices for integration into purchasing processes), ISO 14001 (implementation of a system for managing, measuring and reducing environmental impact).
  • Product design and monitoring: adopting digital eco-design approaches with the business units, monitoring sustainable innovations, etc.
  • Training and acculturation: Promote virtuous practices among employees, particularly in terms of digital office technology.​

How we can help

  • Assess your Green IT maturity

    Assess the maturity of your IT organization in terms of Responsible Digital Enterprise.

  • Define your Green IT strategy

    Elaborate your vision and ambitions, design the target and an implementation trajectory taking into account the financial, organizational, cultural… impacts of these transformations.

  • Manage your transformation program

    Adopt a form of governance that mobilizes and unites players around the goal of a responsible digital economy. Manage the portfolio of initiatives over the long term, from idea to operational implementation.