Putting a digital sufficiency strategy in place

In order to find out where you are starting from, assess the impact of your digital practices, purchases and output. If necessary, you can entrust this diagnosis to a specialist organisation. This will help you to identify the most crucial items.

Elaborating an action plan: 

1. Bring together the different stakeholders in your organisation in order to create a steering committee responsible for successful implementation of the digital sufficiency approach within your organisation. 
2. Take stock: Make an inventory of the digital equipment and services within your organisation. This is the ‘urbanisation’ approach which enables rationalisation of your IS in order to make it more modular and flexible.
3. Keep track of your progress: Use key performance indicators (KPIs) in order to measure your advances:
   • Strategic advances: in order to bulk out your reporting
   • Operational advances: in order to monitor the implementation of the strategy (e.g. percentage of end-of-life equipment sent to reuse channels). 
4. Make a critical assessment of usefulness: Before deploying a new service or technology, assess its usefulness. Once it is in place, it may be too late to change it. Bear in mind that each technology has its own embedded risks (economic, environmental, and health risks, etc.).
5. Promote non-digital practices: Think about how work is organised within your organisation in order to encourage non-digital practices.

A NUDGE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

A number of different assessment tools are available in order to make an initial diagnosis:

• The responsible digital technology toolbox
• The guide to responsible digital technology practices for organisations