Empowering Green Initiatives with IT : A Strategy and Implementation Guide

As energy costs soar, along with increasingglobal warming effects, and the need toreduce carbon footprints, IT departments can provide effective and productive resourcesand offer to assist organizations in their environmental sustainability efforts. More and more, Green initiatives with IT have become a mainstream topic in thebusiness, consumer, and government sectors with results such as lowering energycosts, increasing social responsibility,becoming more eco-friendly to Greenconsumers, and much more. So how can businesses, including yours, use technology to stay in the green—bothfinancially and environmentally? Brimming with practical solutions, offer-ings, planning, and implementation ideas, Empowering Green Initiatives with IT explores the organizational and strategic aspects ofintegrating Green initiatives with Green-related IT resources and offerings, such as Business Intelligence dashboards, Balanced Scorecards with Green initiative performance metrics, Green IT advisors, desktop power-saving technology, Environmental Management systems, custom and compliantreporting, and much more. A must-read for anyone concerned about the environment, the business world, and how the two interact, this timely book explores issues every informed CIO, CTO, IT manager, and consultant will be considering sooner rather than later, including: Exactly what is your IT department's role in Green initiatives? Long-term Green initiatives guaranteed to add strategic value to your organization Workable tips for integrating your ITdepartment into your overall environmental sustainability plan Aligning your Green initiatives with corporate goals of enhancing social responsibility, customer satisfaction, and competiveness Watch your company become a leader in Green technology. Empowering Green Initiatives withIT is your complete road map, offeringdisciplined 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.