OMG Sustainability SIG

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Harsh Sharma — 2010-01-12T10:37:48-05:00

* Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), US Green Building Council * ISO Energy Management Standard [ISO 50001] * Energy Star * Green Building Initiative Green Globes is a green management tool that includes an assessment protocol and a rating system and guide for integrating environmentally friendly design into both new and existing commercial buildings.

sustainability_meetings

Harsh Sharma — 2009-12-18T17:30:40-05:00

OMG-CiOZOne Green-Sustainability Information Day, December 9, 2009, Long Beach California Aberdeen Group [Report] - Mehul Shah, Aberdeen Group [IT's Role in Sustainability] - Terrence Clark, CA [Green Business Process] - Saiful Nasir, David Chong, Green Business Process Institute

private:bi_tool_vendors

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-30T10:17:23-05:00

Following are some of the scenarios a BI tool vendor might use SAM model (and other OMG models referenced in SAM such as Business Motivation Metamodel and MRC) * Green/Sustainability Vocabularies with traceability across global/regional variations, synonyms etc. * Dashboards and canned reports based on SAM Dimensions and Measures (a.k.a. Metrics)such as: * Green Building/Facility (Data Center, Manufacturing facility...) * Waste Management * Water Utilization

private:available

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:57:52-05:00

This page lists different stakeholders in an organization(government, private sector, academic and non-governmental organization)and how they might use SAM and tools based on SAM. * Private Sector Business Stakeholders * Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) * Chief Financial Officer (CFO) * Compliance Officer (may be part of Legal Department) * Chief Procurement Officer (or similar Enterprise Wide Procurement Stakeholder) * Sales/Marketing Department stakeholder * Incentives …

private:regulation_provider_maker_and_enforcement_authority

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:47:48-05:00

Regulation Provider/Maker and Enforcement Authority could be a government or international agency that develops, monitors and reports on Green/Sust Regulations/Directives/Guidelines. Although OMG MRC RFP is of direct relevance here, portions of SAM model/tools based on SAM could be used in the following manner:

private:data_center_director - created

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:36:18-05:00

Data Center director may use tools based on SAM in the following way: * Assess available Incentives for Green Data Center. This may include Incentives for lower energy foot-print from Utility companies * Internal reporting on Green data center metrics * Tracking data center specific metrics (adopted as industry standards, Green Grid for example)

private:incentives_provider

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:32:36-05:00

* An Incentive Provider may or may not always be the same entity. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, ) is an example of an entity that: * Makes environmental regulations and policies * Enforces environmental regulations and policies * Provides Incentives to promote compliance in a variety of ways * Reports on Regulations, Compliance and Incentives

private:chief_procurement_officer

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:28:52-05:00

Following are some of the potential ways a Chief Procurement Officer in an organization might use SAM standards and tools: * Green/Sustainable Procurement Regulations * Which Suppliers can not be used because of their non-compliance to corporate Green/Sustainability policies (usage of non-green components/materials/transportation for example) ?

private:compliance_officer

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:25:15-05:00

Chief Compliance Officer may or may not be a dedicated role in an organization. This may be a stakeholder/executive in the legal department. Following are potential ways this person/internal department may leverage SAM standard and tools based on one or more Dimensions/Metrics of SAM:

private:chief_financial_officer

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:19:46-05:00

Following are potential ways a CFO in an organization may leverage tools based on SAM standard: * Develop and Report on the overall ROI (quantifiable) of Green and Sustainability initiatives * Monitor (on-going basis) utilization of Incentives by the organization including any upcoming changes in eligibility to Incentives

private:chief_sustainability_officer

Harsh Sharma — 2009-11-29T23:18:02-05:00

Chief Sustainability Officer -CSO oversees a group of direct and indirect reports who are involved in environmental health and safety, environmental stewardship and regulatory affairs as well as areas such as procurement, corporate communications and product development. To help balance this wide breadth of responsibility, the sustainability strategies, goals and metrics are establish…