Green ICT Assessment for Organisations

Hankel, Albert; Heimeriks, Gaston; Lago, Patricia

doi:10.13052/jicts2245-800x.421

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“…It can be defined as a combination of actions that reduces the negative impact of ICT and enhances the positive impact ICT can possess on environment. In other words, it can refer as any action that consider the direct, indirect and systemic influence of ICT on the environment [1]. In an organization, it indicates environment friendly and sustainable practices while using ICT equipment.…”

Section: Ict and Its Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Green ICT has been undertaken as solution to this issue. It can be referred as the actions that reduces the unfavorable effect of ICT on the nature and optimize the favorable impact ICT can possess [1].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Again, many models and tools have been proposed for green ICT in organizations. The models are categorized into several levels with unique characteristics which help organizations to assess their accomplished responsibilities towards environment [1]. However, organizations specially SMEs find difficulties to follow these models.…”

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A Framework and a Web Application for Self-assessment of Sustainable Green ICT Practices in SMEs

Khan¹,

Porras²

2018

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Green ICT has received significant attention in organizations to reduce global warming since last decade. Several maturity models have been proposed for tracking green ICT practices in organizations. Current literature shows that SMEs around the world try to follow some common strategies such as virtualization, consolidation of devices, energy efficiency and disposal of ICT equipment for greening ICT. The increasing interest for green ICT practices in organizations is not only due to the desire to attain environment-friendly atmosphere but mainly because of sustaining business goals such as cost reduction, competitive advantages and stakeholders’ pressure. Nevertheless, due to the lack of green ICT knowledge, organizations, specially SMEs, tend to ignore those practices. Therefore, this research proposes a framework that provides combination of existing green and sustainable ICT maturity models by mapping them with the strategies the businesses are already following. Out of this framework, a web application has been developed that provides questionnaire for SMEs to identify their present situation of green ICT practices and guidelines for improvement. The results have been analyzed by testing the application in some SMEs of Finland and Bangladesh. Finally, a survey has been conducted to attain SMEs’ perception about the possibility of sustainable development of businesses through this application.

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Section: Ict and Its Impactsmentioning

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A Framework and a Web Application for Self-assessment of Sustainable Green ICT Practices in SMEs

Khan¹,

Porras²

2018

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“…For instance, in the higher education sector, the primary processes would relate to education and research. In previous work [8] we followed four organisations from the Dutch higher education sector that used the SGIMM to see what the effect of the maturity model was when it was used in practice. Both individual participants and organisations as a whole were positive on its use: the SGIMM increased awareness, inspired action and was insightful.…”

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Green ICT Adoption Using a Maturity Model

Hankel¹,

Heimeriks²,

Lago³

2019

Sustainability

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The field green ICT focuses on the greening of ICT and using ICT to optimise the energy footprint of the ICT-supported processes. For organisations, applying green ICT in the broadest sense presents them with challenges. In this paper we explore what factors are influencing the adoption of green ICT. We follow three organisations that used a green ICT tool, the SURF Green ICT Maturity Model, to identify such factors. Tools like the maturity model help organisations identify the what and how. We found other factors, such as strategic alignment, culture and leadership, determine the why. As ICT is a general purpose technology, it potentially affects all processes in an organisation. To have a greening impact, the main challenge for green ICT is to take a systemic approach and involve all (relevant) parties. ICT departments often position themselves as support (followers, not leaders); this proves to be a big hurdle in the adoption of green ICT.

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“…• Validation: The taxonomy of constructs was drafted in a workshop with nine Green ICT experts, followed by a survey that resulted in improvements and a pilot test that consolidated the model with minor changes [12]. The benefits for organisations and insights for its stakeholders has been investigated by applying the model to four organisations [11].…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Green ICT Maturity Models

Lautenschutz¹,

España

Hankel

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EPiC Series in Computing

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Maturity models have become a common tool for organisations to assess their capabilities in a variety of domains. However, for fields that have not yet been researched thoroughly, it can be difficult to create and evolve a maturity model that features all the important aspects in that field. It takes time and many iterative improvements for a maturity model to come of age. This is the case for Green ICT maturity models, whose aim is typically to either provide insight on the important aspects an organisation or a researcher should take into account when trying to improve the social or environmental impact of ICT, or to assist in the auditing of such aspects. In fact, when we were commissioned a comprehensive ICT-sustainability auditing for Utrecht University, we not only faced the need of selecting a Green ICT maturity model, but also to ensure that it covered as many organisational aspects as possible, extending the model if needed. This paper reports on the comparison we carried out of several Green ICT maturity models, how we extended our preferred model with needed constructs, and how we applied the resulting model during the ICT-sustainability auditing.

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Green ICT Assessment for Organisations

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

A Framework and a Web Application for Self-assessment of Sustainable Green ICT Practices in SMEs

A Framework and a Web Application for Self-assessment of Sustainable Green ICT Practices in SMEs

Green ICT Adoption Using a Maturity Model

A Comparative Analysis of Green ICT Maturity Models

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