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Presentation of the WeGreenIT benchmark tool
1. #GreenConcept
Sustainable values through greener ICT
European policy levers
towards greener ICT
Club Green IT testimonial
September 24, 2018, Paris
Follow us at club.greenit.fr and @ClubGreenIT
2. Agenda
1. About Club Green IT
2. Benchmark Numérique Responsable (Sustainable Digital Benchmark)
3. Lessons learned from the battlefield
4. 1. About
• Founded in 2014, the Club Green IT federates CIO, CSR, and innovation managers from 17
private an public large organisations to make digital a lever of sustainable performance.
• Club Green IT is a tool to help share the expertise, secure and reduce the cost of member
projects by pooling them while creating consensus.
• It provides its members with shared services that help them to:
- share their experiences and best practices;
- provide operational tools such as repositories, methodologies, training, certifications, etc. ;
- build a strong consensus;
- benchmark ;
- communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Most new members setup and initiate their sustainable ICT / green IT strategy with the help
of the Club Green IT’s framework and knowledge:
- Proven solutions by and from your peer;
- No commercial stakes between members.
5. 17 members
• Founding members (2014)
– IT-CE, groupe BPCE (Bank)
– La Poste (Postal service)
– Pôle emploi (Employement Agency)
– Renault (Industry)
– SNCF (Transport)
– Solocal (Digital)
– GreenIT.fr (Consutling)
• Members
+ Aperam (Industry)
+ CNR (Utility)
+ DGA (Army)
+ Engie (Utility)
+ iCDC (Bank)
+ RTE (Utility)
+ Schneider Electric (Industry)
+ SGS (Service)
+ Société Générale (Bank)
+ Université La rochelle (Education)
6. Framework
• Clug Green IT provides a set of several operational tools
– Green IT best practices repository
– Green IT maturity evaluation scale & system
– Information system and digital services LCA model
– Certification for individuals (with La Rochelle university)
– …
• All these tools are organized in a global framework composed of 2 subsets
– Benchmark Numérique Responsable (information scope)
– Label Numérique Responsable (company scope)
8. 2. Benchmark Numérique Responsable
• Target: large public and private companies
• Goals
– Enable large organizations to compare their …
• environmental footprint (information system only),
• as well as their maturity,
– with a common measurement tool;
– … in order to identify
• best practices and actions to implement within each organization to lower IT footprint;
• "champions" and their best practices to share.
• Three editions
– 2016 : BenchNR16 : Club Green IT + Cigref members, Club Green IT as the pilot
– 2017 : BenchNR17 : Club Green IT + C3D members, WWF France as a partner
– 2018 : WeGreenIT : open to all big private French companies, WWF France as the pilot
• All the tools and methodology are based on the latest version of Club Green IT and GreenIT.fr
tools used for more than 10 years on dozens of consulting missions.
9. 2. Benchmark Numérique Responsable
• 4 steps methodology
1. Data collection (footprint, maturity)
2. Quantification
3. Benchmark
4. Action plan
• Quantification tools
– Environmental footprint : based on a simplified LCA (screening) model and methodology (ISO
14040/44)
– Maturity : based on Club Green IT repository of Green IT best practices and maturity
quantification scale
• In figures (WeGreenIT 2018)
– 775 000 users
– 24 000 IT team staff members
– 285 000 m2 of office (dedicated to ICT team)
– 55 500 m2 of data center
– 148 122 000 kms (ICT team only from home to work)
– 2 447 000 000 euros (ICT purchase)
– 2 890 000 devices (ICT only)
10. 2. From Benchmark Green IT 2017 …
• In association with WWF France, C3D, and e-RSE.net
• 9 private and public large organizations
• First benchmark of this kind in Europe, 2d edition
• Footprint (water, GHG, energy), performance and maturity
• 700+ data inputs per participant
• 45 days (including report)
11. 2. … to WeGreenIT 2018
• In association with WWF France
• 26 private and public large organizations -> 3 time more participants
• Footprint (water, GHG, energy), performance and maturity -> more KPIs
• 90 to 125 data inputs per participant -> 4 time less
• 46 days (excluding repord) -> same workload
• What’s new ?
– International LCA model
– Scalable / unlimited model and methodology
– 4 time less input data for the same results
13. What we learned
• Data collection
– Difficulty: there’s always missing datas. The tools and methodoly must take into account this
context and “fill the holes” automatically / with no pain.
– Solution: Previous editions of the BenchNR (2016 and 2017) where essential to calculate
realistic and homogeneous average values.
• Budget
– Difficulty: As always in CSR we missed 3 times the budget to deliver 26 participants.
– Solutions:
• We invested in a brand new tool that automates everything possible (data holes, calculations, …).
• We invest time in briefing participants and data collection
• We divided by 3 the number of inputs required to achieve the same level of quality / precision
• Perimeter
– Difficulty: how to define a homogeneous scope from one company to another to compare
what is comparable
– Solutions:
• Users as a common denominator;
• Digital products and services totally or partly excluded from the study.
