Context
A Swiss company active in sustainable real estate wanted to evaluate the environmental impact of its IS to reinforce coherence between its ecological mission and digital governance.
Sector backdrop. Real-estate operators are used to managing physical assets over decades. Applying the same lifecycle thinking to IT, repair, reuse, refurbished hardware, renewable energy contracts, aligns naturally with their core competence.
Approach
- Optimise the IT fleet by adjusting equipment-to-employee ratio.
- Favour reconditioned and labelled products (Energy Star, Fairphone, Why).
- Use renewable energy for IT systems.
- Train staff on responsible digital.
- Structure Sustainable IT governance with leadership involvement.
- Avoid double equipment in remote work.
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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