  The IT organization needs to play a central role in any business or government agency’s drive to become environment-friendly. It is not just a question of making the IT infrastructure energy efficient and carbon neutral. IT’s role is also to create the infrastructure that enables new, environment-friendly ways of doing business such as remote access for teleworkers, mobility and virtual collaboration—all new ways of working that can help transform the business and enable high performance.
As a first step, CIOs need to determine the available opportunity. To help them do so, Accenture has developed the Green Maturity Model. This Web-enabled tool consists of a series of questions about your IT organization’s current approach, followed by analytics to assess the implications of the responses. Accenture invites you to use Accenture Green Maturity Model tool now. The scoring is made in real time (approximately 15 minutes) and the report is free. Related Research & Insights
The following information showcases some of our latest thinking on how organizations can begin taking a holistic approach to the environmental impact of their IT agenda. Read Green IT: Beyond the Data Center [PDF,521KB]
This white paper looks at the ecological impact of a business’s entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective on a business’s carbon footprint. It demonstrates how the CIO can have a substantial opportunity to further the energy efficiency and corporate citizenship aims of the entire corporation.
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