Greening Your Business Through Technology - WITSA

4Next Steps4.3 Developing a GreenIT RoadmapThe purpose of having a GreenIT Roadmap is to provide business operations with an holistic planfor the future environmental direction of an organisation that identifies the pathway for makingexisting operations more sustainable.A GreenIT Roadmap provides an effective framework for communicating the ‘plan’ and gainingbuy-in from all key stakeholders. However, it does not consider unplanned events and may becomequickly outdated as circumstances change.Developing a GreenIT Roadmap for an organisation is a highly specialised process, requiringexpert knowledge of existing business operations, up-to-date evaluation of existing ITinfrastructure and a clear direction of where the organisation wants to be in the next 2-5 years.The development of a GreenIT Roadmap is commonly conducted by trusted advisory consultingservices, however, it can be done in-house if preferred. For a list of both tactical and strategicinitiatives aligned with best practices, refer to Appendix 2 – GreenIT Best Practices.Typically, the process of developing a GreenIT Roadmap will involve a series of interviews withbusiness stakeholders; an exercise to benchmark existing processes and infrastructure againstbest practices; and an evaluation process in order to identify the best initiatives to be undertakento provide the best return on investment.Each initiative is typically categorised into quick wins, medium-term initiatives and long-term initiatives.Figure 14: Organisational Figure 3: Organisational Transformation Transformation Overview OverviewAs Is Dissatisfactionwith how things are nowTransformationTo Be Vision of what is possibleCost of changeTable 5: Organisational Transformation InitiativesStage Project Type Duration Description1 Quick wins 2 years out Requires business feasibility in orderto develop a high-level business casewhich confirms viability.The development of a GreenIT Roadmap will take one to two months to complete and will providea 2-5 year program of works for ‘greening’ business operations. Depending upon the complexity ofthe environment and detail required in the GreenIT Roadmap, other activities such as ‘value chainmapping’ and ‘innovation brainstorming’ can be incorporated into the process.Value chain mapping helps identify areas of wastage in existing processes which can beeliminated and would otherwise not have been identified.Page 31