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02 Introduction
03 Executive Summary
04 Overview of TechnoVision
05 You Experience
06 Experience²
07 Me Myself and My Metaverse
08 No Friction
09 I Feel for You
10 My Own Private Avatar
11 We Collaborate
12 Fluid Workforce
13 The Team is the Canvas
14 Taken by Tokens
15 Your Business is a Mesh
16 It’s All Connected
17 Thriving on Data
18 Data Sharing is Caring
19 Power to the People
20 Data Apart Together
21 Era of Algorithms
22 Creative Machine
23 Process on the Fly
24 Process is Mine Mine Mine
25 Rock, Robot Rock
26 Silo Busters
27 Can’t Touch This
28 Augmented Me
29 Applications Unleashed
30 Kondo My Portfolio
31 Honey, I Shrunk the Applications
32 When Code goes Low
33 Mesh Up Your Apps
34 Apps ❤️AI
35 Invisible Infostructure
36 Lord of the clouds
37 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Container
38 Simply the Edge
39 Ops, AI did it Again
40 Silence of The Servers
41 Balance by Design
42 Technologyϵ϶Business
43 Adapt First
44 With Open Arms
45 Do Well, Do Good
46 Trust Thrust
47 IQ CQ EQ Up
48 No Hands On Deck
49 A Few More Things
50 Further Research and the Team

DO WELL, DO GOOD

Michiel Boreel Expert in Residence

THE PRINCIPLE

Boost the organization’s societal purposes by saying “Yes” to technology that boosts sustainability and say “No” to what is energy-wasting or non-essential.

"You can’t have it all. Not everything that is technologically possible is socially desirable. As tempting as Technology Business initiatives may seem, many of them demand a great deal of energy, time, and scarce, natural resources. Carefully choose less-demanding initiatives that hold sustainability at heart. Consider the Total Social Impact of initiatives and look for technology that actively benefits societal purpose. Make the world a better place and serve the wellbeing of every human being. Feels good doesn’t it."

THE ANTIPRINCIPLE

Aim to satisfy as many technology needs from the organization as possible without consideration. Only consider the sustainability impact as an afterthought.

THE CONTEXT

IT solutions are an exciting business change enabler, yet they can consume energy, natural resources, and increase CO2 emissions. Indeed, current estimates state that 3.7% of global CO2 emissions comes from IT. If IT industry were a country, it would be the third largest electricity consumer in the world. But sustainability is so much more than just ecological sustainability. The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the critical factors required for societal good: ending poverty deprivation, improving health and education, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth – all while tackling climate change. IT has the potential to not only cut carbon emissions, it can also be purposeful and offer a positive societal benefit that serves the wellbeing of all stakeholders. Time to make a contribution: refrain from hording data, using damaging materials, child labor or adding to the plastic soup of the oceans. There is so much good IT can do if we do it well.

LIVE THE PRINCIPLE

  1. Understand your current landscape by assessing your current sustainability footprint. Check your as-is, include “built-in” CO2 emissions of assets, and consider what happens following their five or seven-year life span.
  2. Identify areas where IT can contribute, such as consolidating your application portfolio, or by using new technology to reduce environmental impact or provide a societal benefit.
  3. When designing, consider the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a Non-Functional Requirement. Always take environmental impact and societal good into account and balance it with availability, stability, cost, and quality.
  4. Build credibility by making IT sustainable, and questioning a design’s impact: “is this truly increasing sustainability?” “What actions can we take now, to improve sustainability in the future?”
  5. Say no to non-sustainable business ideas and technology. Teach colleagues to see the advantages of “yes” today versus “no” to avoid sustainability issues in the future.

THE OPENINGS

  • Become the guardian of people’s digital happiness and incorporate SDGs as Non-Functional Requirements throughout the organization.
  • Launch a “retirement contest” for marginal or obsolete applications.
  • Retrospectively and demonstratively apply Do Well, Do Good to your top three current developments.

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