Green Information Technologies : Implementing Best Practices in Small and Medium Size Business
Woldegiorgis, Abiy (2016)
Woldegiorgis, Abiy
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202402132858
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202402132858
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The purpose of this paper is to present the different practices SMEs follow to adopt green IT. The main aim was to create awareness, provide current information technology solutions for the green cause, and things to consider when they plan to adopt green IT. SMEs can have pressures to address environmental issues by taking sustainable business practices from social, government and economic factors. SMEs need to have awareness to address this drivers and benefit from the opportunities green IT creates.
One of the potential benefits of this study is that it approaches green IT as a holistic manner. In the theoretical background taking green IT framework, sets to figure the different components green IT address. Thus, it depicts green IT is not all about sustainability of IT department and its technologies but it also helps to achieve overall green initiatives, create new opportunities and makes the business competitive while simultaneously getting positive perception towards the business.
Green IT is a developing sector and SMEs perception towards it differs from region to region. This paper provides the approaches SMEs need to acquire. A few of the approaches provide technological solutions to obtain energy efficiency, some require perception change within the business, others bring opportunities to business can embrace. Thus, SMEs can grasp from this paper, different green IT solutions when they aim to adopt sustainable business.
One of the potential benefits of this study is that it approaches green IT as a holistic manner. In the theoretical background taking green IT framework, sets to figure the different components green IT address. Thus, it depicts green IT is not all about sustainability of IT department and its technologies but it also helps to achieve overall green initiatives, create new opportunities and makes the business competitive while simultaneously getting positive perception towards the business.
Green IT is a developing sector and SMEs perception towards it differs from region to region. This paper provides the approaches SMEs need to acquire. A few of the approaches provide technological solutions to obtain energy efficiency, some require perception change within the business, others bring opportunities to business can embrace. Thus, SMEs can grasp from this paper, different green IT solutions when they aim to adopt sustainable business.