Context
A large Swiss insurance group with several thousand staff wanted to better understand and reduce the environmental impact of its digital systems, combining scientific measurement with large-scale awareness, entirely in German to engage local teams.
Sector backdrop. Insurance groups typically run a mix of legacy core systems and modern cloud platforms across multiple entities. Consolidating Sustainable IT data across that landscape is a prerequisite to any credible reduction plan and to upcoming sustainability disclosures.
IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment, environmental analysis
We performed a complete footprint covering office IT, internal and cloud data centres, network infrastructure and digital usage. ISO 14040/44 and GHG Protocol standards were applied, including CO2e, primary energy, water and natural resources. Manufacturing of equipment represented more than 70% of the overall footprint.
Awareness workshop. German workshop
We delivered a 'Digitale Verschmutzung' workshop in German, covering the full digital lifecycle, comparing orders of magnitude (smartphone manufacturing, cloud, streaming), and exploring social and ethical issues linked to rare-metal supply chains.
Results
First complete map of the group's digital footprint. Strong awareness through interactive, local training. Sustainable IT integrated in the CSR strategy with a concrete action plan.
Why this matters
A baseline measurement is rarely the end of the story, it is the input that makes every subsequent decision (procurement, lifespan, cloud regions, application portfolio) defensible with numbers rather than opinions.
A few patterns came out of the engagement that tend to repeat across organisations of similar scale: the largest share of the footprint almost always lives in end-user devices, not in the data centre; teams engage far more when they see numbers from their own organisation, not generic averages.
How the MIKUJY platform supported the work
The MIKUJY platform was used end-to-end to structure the engagement, host the data and consolidate results in dashboards the teams could revisit at any time.
More specifically, the Measure module powered the IT footprint and Sustainable IT maturity assessment, turning scattered inventories into a single comparable baseline; and the Gamify module fed the awareness workshops with the organisation's own numbers and challenges, so participants could engage with their real footprint rather than generic averages.
MIKUJY consultants brought hands-on professional support throughout the engagement, facilitating workshops, validating data and helping translate the platform outputs into a concrete action plan.
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