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An Overview of How Green IT Can Help You Survive the Economy
Executive Summary
Saving money is paramount to companies’ survival in a down economy! The economic down turn has lowered companies’ revenues more than any other time in past years. This has left business leaders with no choice but to reduce costs in an effort to counteract the reduction in revenues while still maintaining profitability. Although companies can reduce costs to improve the bottom line, some methods of doing so can have a negative effect on the economy, while others not only reduce companies’ costs but also can avoid contributing to or extending the recessed economy.
An Overview of How a Service Management Framework Can Contribute to Your Green Goals.
Executive Summary
It’s not often that doing the fashionable thing, is the right thing to do. Green IT is one of those unique circumstances. Green IT, once contained to virtualization and reduction of power in the data centers, is now taking on a broader scope. Green IT is requiring IT Organizations to align even closer to the business than ever before and forcing IT to forge new relationships and alignment across Business Units with Facilities and Corporate Social Responsibility organizations. The challenges of adopting Green IT are many. Fortunately there is help. IT Service Management (ITSM) is a proven, mature framework that can be utilized to support Green IT programs. Green IT and ITSM share common goals, such as operational efficiencies and metrics based improvements. Existing processes and supporting ITSM tools can easily be adapted to support Green IT initiatives. ITSM provides the structure to be successful as well as for documenting and sharing the achievements. It takes discipline and an organized approach to achieve the benefits, but by leveraging best practices, such as ITSM, and having a clear vision and strategy, one can achieve significant rewards by pursuing Green IT!