Green-IT Training: The Benefits of Green-IT Governance
In a world where climate change is becoming a key concern, IT departments are feeling the pressure to organize themselves in a more environmentally friendly fashion and to re-think the way ICT is managed and governed.
This course aims to create more than awareness amongst managers and employees on Green-IT and Green-IT governance; and introduces them into the various elements that every green organization nowadays has to consider.
Description
The objective of this course is to create a decent understanding amongst managers and employees on Green-IT and Green-IT governance. We introduce them into the various elements that every green organization nowadays has to consider, as well as the benefits of implementing Green-IT.Green-IT governance is broader than ICT alone. That is, effectively implementing Green-IT encompasses many non-IT related topics such as corporate social responsibility, corporate policies around work at home, alignment with the business strategy, etc.
The last part of the course, gives a short introduction to the Code of Conduct on Data Center Efficiency.
The course will help companies and its employees to become more environmentally conscious. It provides a basis for implementing measures that allows a company to reduce their energy bill and contribute to a positive, green corporate image.
Objectives
Students completing this course will be able to:- Get the big picture on CO2 emissions, waste and environmental management
- Understand what role IT plays in affecting the environment
- Understand the various concepts of Green-IT
- Understand the benefits implementing a Green-IT governance
- Introduce best practices to using energy and managing IT efficiently
- Understand how both the company and individuals can contribute to a greener environment
- Select the adequate tools and methods to optimize and monitor their ICT infrastructure
- Understand where Energy is consumed in a DataCenter
- Decide if their company should join the Code of Conduct on DataCenter Efficiency
Audience
- Strategy Planners, Auditors, Quality Managers, Risk Managers
- Top Executives and Managers (Business, IT and Facilities)
- Program, Portfolio or Project Managers, Change Managers
- Green-IT Ambassadors, IT governance consultants
- Human Resources Managers
Content
The course contains the following topics:- Global Environmental Situation
- Impact of the IT on the environment
- What is an Organization commitment to a greener environment?
- How can the different stakeholders participate?
- What is Green-IT?
- How can Green-IT help in reducing negative impact?
- How to efficiently implement a Green-IT Governance project?
- Perform a Green-IT Quick scan
- Formulation of best practices
- Definition of a Green-IT roadmap
- Definition and implementation of green key performance indicators (gkpi's)
- Setup of training and awareness program
- Implementation of a Green-IT roadmap
- Periodic (re)assessments
- What are the benefits of a Green-IT Governance project?
- Introduction about the EU Code of Conduct on Data Center Efficiency
- Understanding of Energy demand within data center
- Efficiency metrics: DciE, PUE, IT productivity metric
- Energy efficient best practices
- Need of coordination
Speakers
Thierry Holoffe and Corné de Graaf are experienced in providing senior IT consultancy for a wide variety of companies. Thierry and Corné have been working in the field of IT Governance for a long time and are the two persons involved in the development of the Green-IT services of ADJUGO.Thierry has a technical background and his keen sense of technical evolution and customer requirements for a better management of IT-environments has made him a very successful entrepreneur in several ventures. Thierry has been the CEO of several IT related companies and has been engaged in multiple international transformational projects. He was among the first to adopt ITSM and Software Engineering standards in the 90s.
Corné is senior manager at ADJUGO and is specialized in IT governance, IT process improvement and Green-IT. Prior to ADJUGO, Corné worked as a senior manager at Ernst & Young Technology & Security Risk Services in Brussels, in the area of IT Governance, Financial Services and Risk Management. Together with Thierry Holoffe, Corné developed the entire methodology for Green-IT governance, as currently being offered by ADJUGO.
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