Green IT is an emerging topic and presents great opportunities for strategy development at companies and research institutions. These strategies include initiatives such as reducing overall power consumption, working to extend the useful life of products and providing equipment recovery and recycling services. There is a realization that IT is critical to driving a green agenda deep into organizations in response to macroeconomic changes, competitive pressures and existing inefficiencies in cu..
The idea is to study the similarities and differences between the manufacturing processes of information goods and traditional goods. The environmental aspects are not necessarily seen as important by companies that produce and distribute digital information. IBM can be pointed out as an good example of an environmental friendly innovator that markets itself under "IBM has green solutions" slogan.
The aim of this study is to find the the areas, where the manufacturers of information goods could..
As we all know, by replacing paper bills with electronic invoices we can easily decrease environmental impacts such as green house gases and deforestation (calculate your financial paper footprint here).
In some European countries it is already a common practise to encourage customers to receive electronic invoices by charging an additional fee for paper bills. For instance, in Norway the fee is approximately 5-10 € per invoice, in Belgium 3,5 € and in Sweden 2 €.
In order to speed up the usag..
Calculate your financial paper footprint.
This is the result for a person who receives 10 paper bills in a month. What do you think of this?
STORY: RTE is in everybody's interest but It is a long way. How can it be achieved?
There is no giant leap option. To get there we need to see the stairway and constantly keep moving up. In countries were payment references are in use many important automation features have already been completed. E-banking is an important element and needs to be improved further to cater for the next step - e-invoicing - in itself saving more than 230bn€ processing costs in EU - but even more importantly being..
