Context
A Swiss public university wanted to understand the environmental impact of its IS and integrate responsible digital into its institutional sustainability strategy.
Sector backdrop. Education and research institutions combine large user populations, very long device life cycles and significant scientific-computing workloads. Their Sustainable IT story is also pedagogical: what they measure and publish shapes how the next generation of professionals will think about digital impact.
Approach
- Full IS audit (ISO 14040/44 + GHG Protocol).
- Maturity assessment against the Numérique Responsable framework.
- Two-track action plan: technical optimisation and cultural change.
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.
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.
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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