Digital shapes the world we live in.

Digital is all around us. We live in a digitally infused world. All business is reliant on their digital estates, and in turn, their digital products to be valuable to their customers and remain relevant in the market. It’s through products that companies bring value to the world. 

In a time of sustainable change, business owners and product people must answer the question: How can we make our digital more sustainable?

Sustainability as a moral imperative, an instrument for commercial success or both?

There is a growing trend towards sustainability. Planetary boundaries require it, regulation demands it, competition drives it, and customers pay for it. But the journey towards greater sustainability is full of questions:

• How much will sustainability cost?
• Can sustainability be a benefit?
• Where are the opportunities?
• What does sustainability mean for my product?
• How to implement it?
• Which consequence will it have on our processes?
• How might other stakeholders react?
• Where to start?

This course provides answers and gives guidance. 

Why this course?

There are thousands of free resources on sustainability, Green IT and product management. What makes this course unique?

Modules

The course consists of four 1.5h training modules, plus homework. 

The four modules of the course will cover the following topics:

1. Setting the Scene of Digital Sustainability

•    The What and the Why
•    The Digital Sustainability Landscape
•    The Green PO framework
•    Different stakeholders: different ways to influence

Homework: Sustainability Benefit Map & bring a product or company example

2. Digitally Sustainable Products

•  Different context, different opportunities – examining compliant, opportunistic and strategic sustainability at product and company level with inspirational examples.
• Determine your impact lever
• Metrics: what to measure and how they can guide you

Homework: Green Products Exercise Part 1

3. Creating digitally sustainable products

•  Green PO’s Product Development Lifecycle
• Twisted techniques – looking at techniques you already use with a sustainability twist.
• Twist your own technique

Homework: Personal reflection questions for coaching

4. Being a Digital Sustainability person

• Overview of the Hero’s Journey for Green Leaders
• How to bring in likeminded people
• Different ways to get started: exploring challenges and strategies

By the end of the course, you will be a part of the growing Green PO community, already with your own cohort for support, future sparing and peer mentoring.

Benefits

This course will help you to

Audience

This course is for you if:

• you work in digital
• you want to add more sustainability to your digital but don’t know how
• you face a challenging stakeholder setting that is not yet aligned to a sustainability journey
• or you just want to learn more about digital sustainability

Methods

The training sessions will be live. Recordings will be available to participants. By the end of the course, you will attain certification and be ready to start your digital sustainability journey.

The course is a combination of:

• presentation input
• individual work in provided templates
• homework
• peer conversations and feedback
• open discussion  

The course material will be provided via Green PO. The training runs via Zoom and uses Miro as a collaboration tool.