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E-raamat: Empowering Green Initiatives with IT: A Strategy and Implementation Guide [Wiley Online]

  • Formaat: 256 pages, Screen captures: 6 B&W, 0 Color; Graphs: 29 B&W, 0 Color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2010
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1119199972
  • ISBN-13: 9781119199977
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  • Formaat: 256 pages, Screen captures: 6 B&W, 0 Color; Graphs: 29 B&W, 0 Color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2010
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1119199972
  • ISBN-13: 9781119199977
"A straightforward guide to the role of IT departments and vendor's in assisting organizations in going green with the aid of IT-related resources and offerings. This book provides organizations with strategy, planning, implementation, assessment guidance for their Green initiatives. It discusses the many benefits of Green initiatives with the assistance, integration and collaboration of IT department and vendors, i.e. custom and vendor application development and reporting tools, Green IT examples, business intelligence dashboards that can perform analytical and predictive analysis of green related business data. Outlines the major benefits to be gained through Green initiatives with IT. Shows you how your business can strategize, plan, implement, assess Green initiatives solutions with IT. Explores how to develop Green initiative strategies, plans, projects, and assessments that integrate IT resources and offerings effectively. Practical and thorough, this book includes helpful checklists, glossary, and resources to get started with your business's Green initiatives."--

Provided by publisher.

As energy costs soar, along with increasing global warming effects, and the need to reduce carbon footprints, IT departments can provide effective and productive resources and offer to assist organizations in their environmental sustainability efforts. More and more, Green initiatives with It have become a mainstream topic in the business, consumer, and government sectors with results such as lowering energy costs, increasing social responsibility, becoming more eco-friendly to Green consumers, and much more.

So how can business, including yours, use technology to stay in the green---both financially and environmentally?

Brimming with practical solutions, offerings, planning, and implementation ideas, Empowering Green initiatives with IT expolores the organizational and strategic aspects of intergrating Green initiatives with Green-related IT resources and offerings, such as Business Intelligence dashboards, Balanced Scorecards with Green initiative perfomance metrics, Green IT advisors, desktop power-saving technology, Environmental Management systems, custom and compliant reporting, and much more.

Watch your company become a leader in Green technology. Empowering Green Initiative with IT is your complete road map, offering disciplined approaches and concepts backed up by standards, best practices, software tools, and regulatory compliance notations for strategic implementation of Green initiatives that are as good for the environment---as they are for your bottom line.

A straightforward guide to the role of IT departments and vendor's in assisting organizations in going green with the aid of IT-related resources and offerings.

This book provides organizations with strategy, planning, implementation, assessment guidance for their Green initiatives. It discusses the many benefits of Green initiatives with the assistance, integration and collaboration of IT department and vendors, i.e. custom and vendor application development and reporting tools, Green IT examples, business intelligence dashboards that can perform analytical and predictive analysis of green related business data.

  • Outlines the major benefits to be gained through Green initiatives with IT
  • Shows you how your business can strategize, plan, implement, assess Green initiatives solutions with IT
  • Explores how to develop Green initiative strategies, plans, projects, and assessments that integrate IT resources and offerings effectively.

Practical and thorough, this book includes helpful checklists, glossary, and resources to get started with your business's Green initiatives.

Preface ix
Chapter 1 Green Initiative Drivers and Benefits with IT
1(36)
Drivers for Green Initiatives
3(24)
Benefits of Green Initiatives with IT Overview
27(7)
Summary
34(1)
Notes
35(2)
Chapter 2 IT Resources and Offerings to Assist Green Initiatives
37(32)
IT Resources
39(18)
IT Offerings
57(10)
Summary
67(1)
Notes
68(1)
Chapter 3 Green Initiative Strategy with IT
69(32)
Strategy Mapping
70(3)
Strategy Framework Components
73(26)
Summary
99(1)
Notes
99(2)
Chapter 4 Green Initiative Planning with IT
101(36)
Planning Stage Overview
101(2)
Environmental Management System
103(5)
Planning Stage Process Flow
108(25)
Planning Stage Tips
133(1)
Summary
134(1)
Notes
135(2)
Chapter 5 Green Initiative Implementation with IT
137(32)
Implementation Stage Overview
137(3)
Implementation Stage Process Flow
140(27)
Implementation Stage Tips
167(1)
Summary
167(1)
Notes
168(1)
Chapter 6 Green Initiative Assessment with IT
169(32)
Assessment Stage Overview
170(3)
Assessment Stage Process Flow
173(23)
Assessment Stage Tips
196(2)
Summary
198(1)
Notes
199(2)
Appendix A Resources and Links 201(2)
Appendix B Planning Green Initiatives with IT Checklist 203(6)
Appendix C Implementing Green Initiatives with IT Checklist 209(4)
Glossary 213(12)
About the Author 225(2)
Index 227
Carl H. Speshock, MBA graduate and PhD IT student, is a Senior SQL Server/BI Architect for Microsoft Consulting Services with over twenty years' experience in the IT and computer engineering industry. He provides training, executive briefings, and IT speaking engagements to his clients, which include many Fortune 500 companies.