Before developing a new solution for your HR department or your faster-than-light traders, find out if you could merge different business cases together? Developing a new solution will need time, energy, money.

Merging business cases within the same solution may reduce your carbon footprint. To make sure you can (or cannot!) merge business cases, follow these easy steps:

• Map the ecosystem for the business case: businesses, teams involved, timelines, availability of IT infrastructures, teams...
• Talk with your colleagues and IT teams to see if there is a solution that already exists and can fulfill your needs (most of the time, it actually does)
• Engage business lines and analysts to make sure their need is real, and understand the priority of such development
• If the need is real, think about existing solutions your company has and engage decision makers
• Make sure existing solutions are stable and robust enough to support new features of your business cases

Buying an existing software is of course more sustainable than creating a new software. You need sometimes to adapt your own process to fit it. In addition to the sustainable benefits, buying an existing software is quite cheaper because it has been developed and upgraded for several customers.

Still, if you have to develop a new solution...follow our other recommendations and browse our website!