Digital Sustainability Training

By the end of this two-day training program, participants will be able to:

• Explain the main environmental impacts and systemic dynamics associated with ICT.
• Use the Digital Sustainability Reference Model to structure a transformation.
• Build awareness, skills, sponsorship, objectives, and governance for digital sustainability.
• Integrate sustainability requirements and constraints across business, application, data, and technology architectures.
• Assess lifecycle impacts, develop measurement capabilities, and make environmental data actionable for stakeholders.
• Engage suppliers, procurement teams, customers, partners, and regulators in systemic change.
• Define sustainable operating practices and architecture principles.
• Apply the TOGAF® ADM, particularly the Preliminary Phase, Architecture Vision, and architecture requirements, to a digital sustainability initiative.

This two-day instructor-led training program gives participants a practical method for making environmental sustainability part of information systems strategy, architecture, delivery, operations, and governance. It begins with the environmental impact of ICT, including greenhouse-gas emissions, energy and water consumption, raw-material use, and electronic waste, before introducing the Digital Sustainability Reference Model.

Participants then explore how to build a sustainable digital culture, turn ambition into an actionable transformation program, reshape business, application, data, and technology architectures, and measure lifecycle impacts from manufacture through use and end of life. The program also addresses suppliers, procurement, customers, regulatory reporting, sustainable operations, architecture governance, and the use of the TOGAF® ADM to frame and guide the transition.

Case studies, practical exercises, and assessment preparation help participants connect the framework to real organizational decisions rather than treating sustainability as a separate reporting activity.

Day 1 — From environmental challenge to sustainable architecture

• The environmental impact of ICT: climate, energy, water, materials, and e-waste
• Relevant Open Group standards: TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, and Open Footprint®
• The Digital Sustainability Reference Model
• Developing a sustainable digital culture through leadership, skills, communication, and frugal innovation
• Moving from vision to action: risks, sponsorship, alignment, goals, business-model considerations, and transformation planning
• Architecting a sustainable information system across business, application, data, and technology domains
• Practical case studies and architecture choices

Day 2 — Measuring, influencing, operating, and governing

• Measuring information-system impacts across the full lifecycle
• Building carbon-footprint capabilities and making measures actionable
• Practical measurement exercise using the GARB calculator
• Working with providers, procurement, customers, partners, and authorities
• Operating a sustainable information system: asset lifecycles, infrastructure, applications, data, and user support
• Governing the transition through decision criteria, roadmaps, and architecture principles
• Using the TOGAF® ADM to frame the initiative, define the vision, secure the mandate, and manage requirements
• Practice assessment, correction, and consolidation

• Two days of instructor-led training
• A structured walkthrough of the Digital Sustainability Reference Model and its eight learning units
• Real-world examples and case studies covering strategy, architecture, and transformation choices
• A practical environmental-impact measurement exercise using the GARB calculator
• Examples of sustainable architecture principles and TOGAF® ADM deliverables
• Practice assessment and guided correction

A working understanding of Enterprise Architecture and the TOGAF® framework is recommended but not mandatory.

This program is designed for enterprise, business, solution, data, application, and technology architects; digital transformation leaders; IT and sustainability managers; CSR, risk, governance, procurement, infrastructure, operations, product, and development professionals; and other stakeholders responsible for reducing the environmental impact of information systems.

The program prepares eligible candidates for TOGAF® Framework: Environmentally Sustainable Information Systems Specialist. The specialist assessment is a 30-question, closed-book, multiple-choice examination lasting 30 minutes, with a 75% pass mark.