IT Design & Architecture Expanded

Energy Efficiency & Environmental Sustainability is regularly focused on the data centre facility or the IT hardware.  As we move to the right of the True Efficiency Blueprint and further into the business - there are additional opportunities for improvement (and in my opinion even greater opportunity).  Therefore, the IT Design & Architecture part of the blueprint has been updated to provide additional ideas for improving efficiency and reducing your cost base.

Benefits

By ensuring holistic efficiency and sustainability you can:

1. Identify significant benefits which would traditionally be missed as they cross functional boundaries 
2. Ensure that any initiatives underway are providing real end benefit to the bottom line of the business 
3. Ensure that the organisation is moving forward in one direction 
4. Embed sustainability across the business to improve revenue, cost, profit, brand perception and provide a competitive edge 
5. Improve employee engagement and satisfaction as they see that the business is serious about making a real change to it’s impact on the environment

The Past...

Historically, many organisations and business units have undertook energy efficiency initiatives in isolation without having a holistic view and thereby not understanding the impact on other business units.

The company could be saving power/carbon in one area and increasing it in another therefore having no net improvement. The blueprint provides an holistic strategy for IT, a view on the initiatives to undertake, the different relationships to understand and promotes visibility and transparency to ensure that the organisation is moving forward with real improvement.