As an Australian chief information officer (CIO), we recognise that you are under pressure from many quarters. Just look around the boardroom table. The CEO wants you to deliver higher shareholder value. The CFO is demanding higher returns on IT investments. The COO is looking to you to create operations that are lower-cost and more effective. And all of them want you to help drive the organisation towards high performance. And now, an added pressure: your IT function has found itself in the front line of the battle against climate change. A major high-profile consumer of energy in the organisation, IT is being asked to demonstrate its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. Accenture has highlighted five key areas where IT can have the most rapid and demonstrable impact on energy consumption—and thereby on the organisation’s green agenda. The first step towards implementing IT's rightful position at the heart of the environmental agenda is to scope the available opportunity. This means conducting a diagnostic across all five key areas, enabling IT to benchmark the organisation's current performance and maturity in energy efficiency, and to identify focus areas for improvement. To help CIOs conduct this diagnostic, Accenture has developed a tool called the Accenture Green Maturity Model (GMM).   Read about the key areas of concern for IT and our diagnostic tools
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