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Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders

By : Niklas Sundberg
Book Image

Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders

By: Niklas Sundberg

Overview of this book

We are at a critical point in human history. Humanity is under threat, but all is not lost. We can take action! But how? Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders will show you how. It will walk you through the construction and implementation of a sustainable IT strategy and enable you to do your bit for the future of mankind. The book is split into three parts. Part I details the “why” and the clear and present danger that humanity faces today: the climate crisis. How did we get here, what are the immediate threats, what are the planetary boundaries that we need to peel back to safe levels, and what impact does IT have on society at large? Part II will focus on the "what.” It examines the nitty-gritty details of what we can do to unlock significant returns on sustainable investments toward a more sustainable future. Part III, the final part of the book, focuses on the “how.” How do you turn your ideas into action? What do you need to do to establish your baseline and your direction of travel towards your objective? This part provides tangible case studies and explains how you can start your journey today to begin delivering global and impactful objectives. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to plan, implement, and communicate a sustainable IT strategy and set yourself apart as a progressive technology leader.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Why Is Sustainable IT Important?
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Part 2: What Are Sustainable IT Practices?
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Part 3: How Do You Accelerate Sustainable IT?

Sustainable IT vendor management

Now that you have learned about some of the sustainable IT procurement requirements you can impose on your vendors and how you can drive the process from end to end, let us look at the broader perspective and how to work with sustainable IT vendor management. Vendor management is the discipline of managing, administering, and guiding product and service vendors in an organized way to drive vendor behavior and optimize IT or business outcomes. The vendor management discipline emerges once a contract has been signed with a vendor. However, given the vendor classification, the vendor may or may not fall within the scope of vendor management.

A typical vendor management function is often challenged to unlock business value beyond incremental cost savings. As we have seen in previous chapters, software and hardware vendors comprise a large portion of scope 3. As more services are moving to the cloud, scope 3 emissions will continue to increase unless...