Tesco’s Green IT Initiatives

Summary

Mike Yorwerth, Tesco Global Technology Architecture Director discusses IT planning.

Tesco is big news. It has 4,331 stores worldwide and rang up global sales of $1.7 billion in every week of 2009 (that’s equivalent to more than 10 weeks of sales for Starbucks). Now it has ambitious plans to go carbon neutral. But how? Tesco’s IT infrastructure consumes about 75% of the company’s total energy use. Here, Mike Yorwerth, the retail giant’s Global Technology and Architecture Director, explains how all companies can adopt green strategies for a better bottom line and what the plan will mean for Tesco’s all-important customers.

In this interview, you will find out:
• Why technology must take precedence over PR
• How to manage and reassign resources during transformation
• Lessons learned so far

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Mike Yorwerth

Mike Yorwerth is the Group Technology and Architecture Director for Tesco Stores Limited. Tesco is the UK’s largest retailer and is the world’s third largest fresh food retailer. A Cambridge engineering graduate, Mike has played a number of lead roles in technology management. He has over 15 years experience working in IT in the retail sector at Marks and Spencer, Tesco.com and Tesco Stores Limited. His responsibilities include enterprise architecture (creating and driving group-wide IT strategy, roadmaps and standards), information services (an end to end service for information provision from analysis and design through to implementation and operation) and research and development.

Mike Yorwerth