Tydas Incorporated

Defining and Creating a Green IT Strategy


The concept of "green IT" has been gaining ground in organizational operations for years. Recent rapid shifts in energy prices, however, have prompted renewed and more urgent attention to the topic.

Green IT - while easy to summarize - is often hard to do well. Most key decisions around purchasing, use and disposal of IT equipment have life-cycle cost and environmental consequences. But how does an organization - large or small - move beyond eco-buzzwords (carbon-neutral, carbon footprint?) to create and implement green-IT strategy across the enterprise?

Tydas recognizes that developing organization-wide policies requires careful planning and follow-through. We can help in ways that are specific to your organizational needs - and cut your costs as well.

We work with you to:

• Assess your business needs and recommend ways to embrace or extend green IT initiatives in ways you can measure.
• Define infrastructure and manage IT to minimize energy use.
• Assess IT products for environmental impact and compliance.
• Plan IT equipment recycling and disposal.
• Train staff to cultivate green IT awareness.

Tydas consultants operate from the premise that all organizations are unique, with different needs, expectations, and goals.  We work with organizations to understand their operations and culture before making recommendations on any new approach to technology. And we recognize that green IT, like other corporate policies, also requires that kind of individualized approach.

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A Few Green IT Links

The Web pages below offer useful insights on Green IT tactics and strategy.

Green IT: Corporate Strategies - Recent reports from Gartner, Forrester and McKinsey highlight costs and savings from implementing green-tech corporate strategies. BusinessWeek, Feb. 11, 2008

Green IT: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - University of Pennsylvania Computing has a sensible, well organized overview of green IT from the point of view of the individual consumer. It also includes useful links to the Green-IT pages of major equipment manufacturers and other resources.

Here are 10 green IT resolutions. How many can your team keep? - Ten evergreen New Year’s resolutions make a useful starting point for any organization’s IT team. ZDNet’s GreenTech blog, Jan. 1, 2009

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Information on other  services

• Management Consulting
  
• IT Strategic Planning and Transformation - and the IT Budget
  
• Business Continuity Planning
• Return on Investment (ROI) Analysis for IT Investments
• Network Assessment and Audit
• Enterprise Architecture
• Network Infrastructure
• Disaster Recovery
• IT Project Management
• [Defining and Creating Green IT Strategy]
• Feasibility Studies
• Workplace Technology and Collaboration