Chalinda Abeykoon's List: GreenIT

• GreenIT® provides services to enable clients to drive measurable financial and environmental benefits from programs for IT Eco-Efficiency and IT Eco-Innovation.
• GreenIT® is a progressive consultancy that serves clients in three primary markets
• Leaders in IT, Finance, Marketing, and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Real Estate Professionals

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• A complete eco-inventory is a necessary first step

• The GreenIT 360/365 Service package provides experienced staff, proven processes and custom tools to help your organization develop and execute a successful Sustainable IT program.
• carry you through the process of measurement, evaluation, planning, execution and reassessment.
• Data Collection and Baselining
• The first step creates a detailed bottoms-up inventory of equipment, energy use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, waste production, and costs.
• Efficiency and Consolidations
• GreenIT works with key participants to identify short term opportunities for improvement, create action plans and measure results.
• Organization and Process
• he next step is to engage with key stakeholders (Executive Management, Facilities/Real Estate, Finance, Human Resources, Transportation, etc.) on how IT can streamline their operations.
• When agreement is reached on objectives , changes to budgets and operating processes are assessed.
• Systems ReDesign
• In the first two phases, baseline information were gathered, short-term changes were implemented, and the effectiveness of the changes were measured. In phase three, longer term initiatives for changes in business process and IT functions were evaluated and budgeted. In phase four, this information is put together into a cohesive plan for long term sustainability actions.

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• life cycle assessment
• A life cycle assessment
• This is achieved by
• is a technique to assess each and every impact associated with all the stages of a process from cradle-to-grave
• • Compiling an inventory of relevant energy and material inputs and environmental releases;
   
  • Evaluating the potential impacts associated with identified inputs and releases;
   
  • Interpreting the results to help you make a more informed decision
• The goal of LCA is to compare the full range of environmental and social damages assignable to products and services, to be able to choose the least burdensome one.
• LCA succeeds in accurately measuring the impacts of the technology used for delivering products, but not the whole impact of making the economic choice of using it
• The procedures of life cycle assessment (LCA) are part of the ISO 14000 environmental management standards: in ISO 14040:2006 and 14044:2006. (ISO 14044 replaced earlier versions of ISO 14041 to ISO 14043.)
• According to the ISO 14040^[4] and 14044^[5] standards, a Life Cycle Assessment is carried out in four distinct phases
• Goal and scope
• the following six decisions must be made at the beginning of the LCA process
• (1) Define the goal(s) of the project
• (2) Determine what type of information is needed to inform the decision-makers
• (5) Define the scope of the study
• (3) determine the required specificity
• (4) Determine how the data should be organized and the results displayed
• (6) Determine the ground rules for performing the work
• system boundary determines which unit processes are included in the LCA and must reflect the goal of the study.
• the goal and scope phase includes a description of the method applied for assessing potential environmental impacts and which impact categories that are included.

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• Lean IT is the extension of lean manufacturing and lean services principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services. Its central concern, applied in the context of IT, is the elimination of waste, where waste is work that adds no value to a product or service.
• Consultants and evangelists for Lean IT identify an abundance of waste across the business service “production line”, including legacy infrastructure and fractured processes.^[4] By reducing waste through application of lean Enterprise IT Management (EITM) strategies, CIOs and CTOs in companies such as Tesco, Fujitsu Services, and TransUnion are driving IT from the confines of a back-office support function to a central role in delivering customer value.
• Lean IT promises to identify and eradicate waste that otherwise contributes to poor customer service, lost business, higher than necessary business costs, and lost employee productivity. To these ends, Lean IT targets eight elements within IT operations that add no value to the finished product or service or to the parent organization
• Challenges for Lean IT
• Value-Stream Visualization
• Reference Implementations
• Resistance to Change
• Fragmented IT Departments
• Integration of Lean Production and Lean Consumption

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