Online screening questionnaire – Views about Sustainability & the Cloud

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Can we proceed on the basis of the above?*

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Thank-you for the time you have taken to review this discussion – I will contact you about different projects in the future, if this is of interest to you?

SQ 1) Does your company have a dedicated ESG oversight function?*

a) Yes

b) No

c) I’m not sure.

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 2) What role, if any, do you personally play in setting and/or executing ESG /sustainability strategy, particularly as it relates to sustainability, for your company?*

a) I have primary responsibility for overseeing ESG /sustainability engagement for our company.

b) I am part of a team that is responsible for overseeing ESG /sustainability engagement for our company.

c) I have responsibility for executing our ESG /sustainability goals and objectives in the areas of the company I have responsibility for

d) None of the above

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 3 Does your company publish or disclose ESG data or file any ESG/ Sustainability reporting?*

a) We publish this information in our annual corporate report

b) We publish this information in a separate ESG report

c) We publish this information on our website

d) We don’t publish any ESG information

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 4) Which of these statements best describes where your company is when it comes to Sustainability initiatives, particularly as it pertains to the environmental/sustainability aspects of sustainability?*

a) Everything we do is rooted in sustainability. My company was founded to be sustainable or has evolved to differentiate strongly within its industry on sustainability.

b) In my company, sustainability concerns permeate all aspects of decision making

c) My company has achieved multiple sustainability objectives that are integrated with our business and financial strategy, and is actively working with its partners to set additional targets

d) My company has achieved a selected set of sustainability objectives and relevant regulatory benchmarks, and is setting additional targets

e) My company is addressing sustainability compliance requirements and actively working on developing sustainability objectives

f) My company recognizes sustainability as a compliance issue but has not taken any concrete steps to meet the sustainability objectives

g) My company is not engaged in sustainability initiatives at this time

h) I don’t know/I’m not sure

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 5) How many employees are employed full time by the company you currently work for, including yourself? Please do not include contractors or part time staff. Your best estimate is fine.*

a) 1 - 19

b) 20-50

c) 51-100

d) 101-249

e) 250 - 499

f) 500-999

g) 1,000-2,499

h) 2,500-4,999

i) 5,000-9,000

j) 10,000 or more

k) I don’t know/refuse to say

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 6) Is working for your employer your full-time job?*

a) Yes

b) No

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 7) Which of these, if any, describe the company that you work for?*

a) For-profit

b) Not for-profit

c) Start up

d) Public Sector (eg, government, education, public hospital)

e) I’m not sure.

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 8) Which of these best describes your company’s industry?*

a) Automotive

b) Agriculture

c) Pharmaceuticals/Biotech or Life Sciences

d) IT Consulting (SI)

e) Consulting related to ESG or sustainability

f) Education

g) Financial Services

h) Government

i) Healthcare (not a hospital)

j) Hospital

k) Hospitality

l) Legal

m) Manufacturing

n) Market Research

o) Media or Entertainment

p) Retail or Wholesale Distribution

q) Business or professional services

r) Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

s) IT/Value-Added Reseller (VAR)

t) IT/Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)

u) Law Enforcement

v) Other

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

Please describe below*

SQ 9) Great! Could I ask if you work for any of the following companies?*

a) Amazon / AWS

b) Google Cloud Platform / GCP

c) IBM

d) Microsoft Azure

e) Oracle

f) Deutsche Telecom

g) OVHcloud

h) 3 DS Outscale

i) Scaleway

j) IONOS

k) Atos

l) Telefónica

m) None of the above.

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 10) What is your current job function?*

Please advise above.

SQ 11) Please could you describe in a little more detail your job responsibilities?*

Please advise above.

SQ 12) What job title do you report to in your organisation?*

Please advise above.

SQ 13) Which of the following would you say best describes your primary role?*

a) IT / Technology

b) Software – eg software engineering, software development, software architect

c) Business /Administration – eg finance, operations, marketing, HR, strategy, product development, operations, R&D, etc.

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 14) And at what level of company management would your role be classified?*

a) Support / administrative level

b) Individual contributor

c) Middle management

d) Senior management

e) C-level/ Board

f) Other

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

Please describe below*

SQ 15) Which of the following statements best describes your role in determining the IT infrastructure on which your company’s workloads are deployed?*

a) I am solely responsible or have final authority for these decisions.

b) I am head of a team responsible for these decisions.

c) I am a member of a team responsible for these decisions.

d) I provide input into these decisions but am not part of the decision-making team.

e) I have no part in these decisions.

f) I don’t know.

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 16) Which of the following statements best describes your role in reviewing/approving major IT purchasing decisions?*

a) I am solely responsible or have final authority for these decisions.

b) I am head of a team responsible for these decisions.

c) I am a member of a team responsible for these decisions.

d) I provide input into these decisions but am not part of the decision-making team.

e) I have no part in these decisions.

f) I don’t know.

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 17) In your organization, how are you leveraging the cloud?**

a) Run our infrastructure – our servers, processing, networking, storage, virtual machines.

b) Run our productivity software applications – email, office applications like O365, Google apps, etc.

c) Run our enterprise applications - CRM, ERP, etc.

d) Data analytics

e) Testing and development

f) Back up

g) Disaster recovery

h) We aren’t currently doing anything in the cloud.

i) I don’t know.

j) Other

Please select one or more options: MULTICODE

Please describe below*

SQ 18) Please indicate your company’s current status regarding public cloud workload deployment?*

a) All or almost all our workloads deployed on public cloud infrastructure.

b) We’re actively migrating most workloads to public cloud infrastructure, with all new deployments on public cloud.

c) We have migrated some significant workloads to public cloud infrastructure.

d) We have migrated a few small-scale workloads to public cloud infrastructure.

e) We’re experimenting with or piloting workloads on public cloud infrastructure.

f) We are actively evaluating the public cloud for workload deployments.

g) We plan to evaluate the public cloud within 1 year.

h) We plan to evaluate the public cloud within 3 years.

i) We currently have no plans to evaluate the public cloud.

j) I don’t know

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 19) When you think about public cloud infrastructure service providers, which providers come to mind? To be clear, by “public cloud infrastructure service providers” we’re referring to cloud providers for your servers, processing, networking, storage, etc. We are NOT referring to productivity software (like Office365 and Google apps.) that run in the cloud.*

a) I don’t know.

b) None

c) Other

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

Please list several providers below*

SQ 20) Thank-you - which of these is your primary public cloud infrastructure service provider, and which other providers are being used at your company?*

	Primary Provider	Used	Not used / I don’t know
Alibaba
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Microsoft Cloud / Azure
VMWare
IBM
Oracle
Deutsche Telecom
Other

Please click once on each row

SQ 21) Thank-you – could I ask in which year you were born?*

a) Before 1955

b) 1955 - 1964

c) 1965 - 1980

d) 1981 - 1989

e) 1990- 2001

f) After 2001

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 22) And could I ask how you identify?*

a) Male

b) Female

c) Non-binary

d) I prefer not to self-describe

Please select one option: SINGLE CODE

SQ 23) Thanks – could you describe to me a bit about the kinds of ESG/sustainability initiatives which you are running in your organization?*

Please describe above (2 or so sentences)

SQ 24) Could you also confirm that you are fluent in English and happy to conduct an interview in English for this research?*

a) Yes, completely fluent in English.

b) Yes, I am reasonably fluent in English.

c) No, I would need to be interviewed in a different language.

Please describe language below*

SQ 25a)SQ 25a) Thank you for the time you have taken to answer these screening questions - we will be interviewing from w/c 18th September onward - could you advise of two or three suitable interview times, so that we can speak for up to 50 - 60 minutes when it’s mutually convenient.*

Earliest Date and Time*

Next Date and Time (if available)

SQ 25b) Thank-you - I would be grateful if you could confirm a few final details:

Name*

Job Title*

Company name*

Phone (inc international dialling code)*

Email*

LinkedIn profile link