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SunavIT

(Sustainably navigating IT)

The goto-place for proven practices to sustainably navigate an IT landscape

MANIFESTO


We belief in the differentiation power of comprehensive sustainable practices for IT


We want to establish the goto-place for proven practices to sustainably navigate an IT landscape


We aim to exploit the full potential with a dedicated focus on

  • IT products and their full lifecycle
  • IT differentiation and regulator compliance and influence
  • Impact within IT control with the design phase as the key lever
  • Practices beyond resource efficiency to sustainably ensure a business’s strategic agility and operational resilience
  • Reuse not re-inventing established proven IT practices
  • Leverage of experiences and opinions of likeminded experts
  • Co-creation of a toolbox of IT practices to share experience and to sustainably navigate an IT landscape along its lifecycle.
  • An ecosystem fostering endorsement and enabling members to create and share commercially viable values

WHY


WHAT


We want to co-create, provide and foster a dedicated collection of proven IT practices enabling an IT organization

  • to differentiate with comprehensive IT sustainability
  • to sustainably navigate an IT landscape along its lifecycle

Scope and focus

  • Sustainability as a differentiator for IT
  • Full livecycle coverage
  • Impact within IT control
  • Comprehensive perspective on IT sustainability
  • Reuse established proven IT practices
  • Alignment with general sustainability standards (ESG and Triple Bottom Line)
  • Design phase as the key lever with impact
  • Opinionated and credible leveraging experiences and opinions of likeminded experts
  • Fostering endorsement and enabling members to create and share commercially viable values
  • Enabling regulator compliance and influence

HOW


Identity

  • Believe, Seniority, Expertise, Endorsement
  • Engagement in sustainability as differentiator for IT
  • Engagement in shaping industry and legal regulations, if possible as “Selbstregulierung”

Toolbox

  • A comprehensive collection of proven IT sustainability practices organized in 6 domains with an extensive coverage of going beyond resource efficiency
  • SunavIT provides a toolbox of IT practices designed to enable the sustainable navigation of an IT landscape to deliver on a business vision while avoiding potential dangers
  • The toolbox can be used as a toolbox to selectively apply sustainable IT practices depending on a specific context and being conscious of accepted trade-offs.
  • The sunavIT toolbox serves as the foundation to capture and share experiences and practices
SunavIT wheel

Ecosystem

  • Using toolbox for education, advisory, certification, communication, strategy
  • It is a platform to share experience and good practice
  • The sunavIT toolbox is co-created and evolved within a community of like minded people
  • There are different roles to engage with the ecosystem and community (Sponsor, Influencer, Co-creator, Navigator)

WHEN


The roadmap to the end vision distinguishes three time horizons and associated capabilities.

Fictitious testimonials are used to outline selected capabilities


Innovator

2024

Identity: Insider / Opportunities

(Only known to insiders, opportunistically promoted at events and word of mouth)

Toolbox: Structured Direction/Idea/Need

(6 areas plus one level down, ready/mature to use in strategic/IT vision work and) early pilots)

Community: Inner Circle

Early Follower

2026

Identity: Endorsement

(Industry endorses usage of toolbox)

Toolbox: Established collection of patterns

Community: Community

Nirvana

2028

Identity: Standard, Certification

(Institutions/Associations endorse and use)

Toolbox: Base for Certification

(ready to use for maturity assessments)

Community: Ecosystem


Innovator


"The holistic SunavIT perspective on IT sustainability enabled me to meet the firm's strategic sustainability priority by adding a well received sustainability perspective to our IT strategy"
- CIO in Health Insurance

"I like the triple bottom line proposal of SunavIT to combine sustainable business success with sustainable impact on environment and society"
- Head of Architecture in Financial Services

"The SunavIT talk at the IT Service Management conference inspired me to think different about how to ensure both, an IT product’s short-term change agility and its long-term strategic agility across the entire product lifecycle"
- IT Product Manager in Government

Early Follower


"TSunavIT proposed practices allowed me to measure and evolve the company’s IT landscape based on quantitative insights in the financial (.e.g, investment backlogs etc.), energy (e.g., power consumption in the data centers) and people (e.g., staff planning based on technology needs) area"
- CIO in Pharmacy

"SunavIT is now a fix part of my Software Engineering curriculum"
- Professor in Computer Science

"SunavIT inspired me to include client behaviour telemetry in all our e-business application allowing us to actively manage application features based on usage insights"
- Strategy Office in e-Commerce

"Applying practices proposed by SunavIT allowed us to reduce energy consumption of a large IT landscape by 25% by streamlining the application landscape and optimizing resource usage"
- IT Operations in Retail

Nirvana


"In a public tender SunavIT criteria and the company’s endorsement allowed us to win a large contract."
- Account Manager in Swiss SME

"In a private tender our SunavIT maturity assessment was the main differentiator to engage us for a large project."
- CEO in Software Engineering Boutique

WHO


The SunavIT framework is co-created and evolved within a community of like minded people.

People endorsing SunavIT

There are different roles to engage with the framework ecosystem and community

Engagement Roles

Sponsor: financial support for the framework

Influencer: thought leadership and framework promotion

Co-creator: experience and practice contribution

Navigator: framework usage to navigate IT


EVENTS


Past and upcoming events


22.11.2023

SunavIT Launch Event

6.3.2024

SunavIT Q1 Community Event

12.3.2024

Enterprise Architecture Management Conference (Vienna)

17.4.2024

Enterprise Architecture Management Forum (Zurich)

12.6.2024

SunavIT Q2 Community Event

28.8.2024

Swiss Green Economy Symposium

18.9.2024

SunavIT Q3 Community Event

Contact Us

  info@sunavit.org