Abstract
Sustainability is increasingly present in all areas of society and organizations. In Information Technology (IT), the idea of sustainability has come through the so-called Green IT practices. These practices are attracting many organizations that have realized the importance of this area and the benefits it generates socially, economically, and environmentally. However, there is a lack of standards and/or frameworks that help organizations to carry out these Green IT practices. For this reason, we have developed the “Governance and Management Framework for Green IT” and an ISO/IEC 33000-based maturity model for this framework, which allow to perform the implementation, evaluation, and improvement of Green IT in organizations in a systematic and progressive manner. In the present study we present an empirical validation through a case study that we have conducted with these proposals, emphasizing the application of ISO/IEC 33000 family of standards to Green IT. The results obtained in this case study demonstrate the importance of having a maturity model for Green IT and the validity and usefulness of the application of ISO/IEC 33000 to Green IT through the developed maturity model.
Highlights
Sustainability [1] has ‘‘landed’’ on society and organizations, and it is here to stay indefinitely
In the present article we aim to present further case study based on a Green Information Technology (IT) audit performed in a Colombian organization, focusing on the ISO/IEC 33000-based maturity model developed for the GMGIT 2.0
After analyzing all the results in detail obtained in the Green in IT audit conducted in the UCEVA and following the ISO/IEC 33000-based maturity model developed for the GMGIT 2.0, we concluded that the UCEVA is partially at Level 1 of maturity of Green in IT
Summary
Sustainability [1] has ‘‘landed’’ on society and organizations, and it is here to stay indefinitely. One of the business areas that is being considered most (due to its impact and relevance) to carry out sustainable practices is the area of Information Technology (IT) In this area, organizations are faced with too high obstacles when they decide to start implementing the so-called Green IT practices [5]–[7]. This is because they have to investigate and experiment with this type of practices on their own, since there are no wide adopted and validated standards and/or frameworks that help them carry out accurate implementations in this regard [8]–[10]. In [14] a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) in the area of maturity models of sustainability and of Green IT is included. The changes that have been made in this new standard are mainly based on the VOLUME 7, 2019 clarification and inclusion of new concepts to make a standard more open and with a greater range of application than its predecessor
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