Professional Devices · Step 2

Manage fleets that last.

Five short lessons applying the Green IT foundations to professional IT operations — procurement contracts, fleet lifecycle, decommissioning, CSRD reporting. The decisions are bigger (100s or 1000s of devices), the levers are different (clauses in tenders, KPIs, ITAD partners), but the underlying logic is the same as for individual users: extend service life, prefer refurbished, recycle responsibly.

5 lessons

~35 minutes total. Knowledge checks throughout, plus a final assessment for the Professional Devices Ambassador certificate.

Professional Devices lessons

Click any lesson to start. The order below is recommended — procurement decisions cascade into everything else — but not enforced.

Lesson 1

Procurement First

Vendor contracts as the single biggest sustainability lever. Standards worth requiring (EPEAT, TCO Certified, EU Repairability Score), clauses worth fighting for, RFPs worth re-drafting.

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Lesson 2

Fleet Lifecycle Strategy

3-year vs 6-year cycles: what doubling the lifetime really saves. Mid-life refresh, internal cascades (engineering → office → kiosk), TCO with a carbon line.

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Lesson 3

Repair & Refurbish at Scale

In-house spare-parts stock, mean-time-to-repair, battery refresh programmes, refurbished-first procurement, manufacturer support deals worth signing.

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Lesson 4

Decommissioning & Data Destruction

NIST 800-88 sanitisation standards, choosing an ITAD partner (ISO 14001 + ISO 27001), donation cascades to non-profits, material-recovery reporting.

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Lesson 5

Reporting & Compliance

Lifecycle KPIs that survive an audit, CSRD / ESRS E1+E5 mapping, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU Right to Repair, a 5-level lifecycle maturity model.

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