A carbon-conscious digital service development and innovation culture.
Cloud is more than an infrastructure change – it’s about empowering teams with new, agile ways of innovating. And that involves changing the culture as well as the tech.
Part of that cultural change should involve embedding carbon consciousness, so sustainability is integrated in new digital service development.
That way, each innovation step is also a step towards lower energy use and carbon neutrality.
There are various elements to this, including:
✔ Making sure service design processes factor in sustainability
✔ Building in an agile way with rapid prototyping and continuous improvement to achieve faster results and prevent major resource wastage down the line
✔ Building to be reusable
✔ Right-sizing the infrastructure so you’re only using what’s needed at any given time
✔ Integrating best-practice data management and analytics that enable fast, effective information flows and decision making
Make each innovation step a move towards lower energy use.
Governance is essential for sustainable innovation.
Our view is that to build sustainably on cloud, devs need production-ready frameworks and tools that include sustainability guardrails as well as the standard security and compliance ones.
They also need sustainability-minded support teams to take over managing the application, whether it’s a central function of the IT organisation, a third party or internal staff within their product group.
That way, you have established governance processes that enable agile, sustainable innovation at scale.
