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Description

Digital Sobriety: Measuring Footprint, Reducing Usage and Engaging Teams

Move from symbolic gestures to decisions that genuinely lighten your IT estate and digital usage

  • 0.43 days — 3 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • All levels
  • Up to 6 participants

The subject often arrives through a request from executive management or a client, and the response is limited to a few tips on email attachments and screen standby settings. Meanwhile the IT estate is renewed at the pace of supplier contracts, storage volumes grow without any arbitration, and digital projects are approved without their material footprint ever being put on the table.

This three-hour virtual session restores a sense of scale and separates what belongs to individual behaviour from what belongs to procurement and design decisions. Participants leave with a clear framework for reading the main impact categories and a short list of realistic actions they can defend internally.

Learning objectives

  • Locate the main digital impact categories within an organisation
  • Distinguish impacts linked to hardware manufacturing from those linked to usage
  • Identify the levers for extending equipment service life
  • Formulate digital sobriety criteria applicable to procurement and projects
  • Build an awareness message tailored to business teams

What makes this programme different

Orders of magnitude are established before any action is proposed in order to avoid false priorities
Levers are ranked according to implementation effort and expected effect
Each participant leaves with three actions formulated for their own scope

Programme

1Understanding Where the Impacts Sit

Restoring a sense of scale

  • Distribution of impacts across manufacturing, usage and end of life
  • Relative weight of devices, networks and data centres
  • Common misconceptions about email and storage
  • Useful vocabulary for dialogue with technical teams

2Acting on the IT Estate and Usage

Levers ranked by real effect

  • Extending service life and the trade-off between repair and replacement
  • Refurbishment and equipment reuse channels
  • Controlling mailbox and shared workspace storage
  • Configuration of video conferencing services and video streams
  • Questions to ask before launching a new digital service

3Bringing the Organisation on Board

Moving the subject from discourse to decision

  • Formulating digital sobriety criteria in purchase requests
  • Alignment with the organisation's environmental commitments
  • Arguments tailored to business departments and end users
  • Selecting a few monitoring indicators that are simple to collect

Who is it for

IT managers and environmental focal points as well as digital project managers and hardware buyers.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

12 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.