Difficulties being green? Investigating Green IT in IT consultant companies
(2009)Department of Informatics
- Abstract
- This study focuses on the topic of Green IT in the IT consultant industry. Green IT is currently a hot topic but while awareness and established policies has increased in the last years, studies show that few companies are actually following their procedures or have goals or ways of measuring the effects of their green initiatives. The research area of Green IT is limited in terms of empirically founded literature focusing on being green within specific industries, such as consultant companies. This study is a further contribution to this area. We investigated the reasons for poor enforcement and evaluation of Green IT initiatives and measured the maturity of the concept within the organisations using a Green IT Capability Maturity Model.... (More)
- This study focuses on the topic of Green IT in the IT consultant industry. Green IT is currently a hot topic but while awareness and established policies has increased in the last years, studies show that few companies are actually following their procedures or have goals or ways of measuring the effects of their green initiatives. The research area of Green IT is limited in terms of empirically founded literature focusing on being green within specific industries, such as consultant companies. This study is a further contribution to this area. We investigated the reasons for poor enforcement and evaluation of Green IT initiatives and measured the maturity of the concept within the organisations using a Green IT Capability Maturity Model. The study used a qualitative approach including in-depth interviews with seven IT consultant companies in Sweden. Results indicated that poor enforcement and evaluation could be explained to some extent by difficulties such as measurement, lack of proper technology and Green IT projects wrongfully placed within the organisations. Other common reasons were the financial crisis and Green IT being such a recent phenomenon. The results also show an average maturity across levels in the Green IT Capability Maturity Model of 71, 4 percent. (Less)
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- author
- Hellmo, Lina and Ferizi, Liridona
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2009
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Green IT, Green IT index, Capability Maturity Model, Consultant industry, Informatics, systems theory, Informatik, systemteori
- language
- English
- id
- 1393452
- date added to LUP
- 2009-04-15 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2010-08-03 10:52:15
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abstract = {{This study focuses on the topic of Green IT in the IT consultant industry. Green IT is currently a hot topic but while awareness and established policies has increased in the last years, studies show that few companies are actually following their procedures or have goals or ways of measuring the effects of their green initiatives. The research area of Green IT is limited in terms of empirically founded literature focusing on being green within specific industries, such as consultant companies. This study is a further contribution to this area. We investigated the reasons for poor enforcement and evaluation of Green IT initiatives and measured the maturity of the concept within the organisations using a Green IT Capability Maturity Model. The study used a qualitative approach including in-depth interviews with seven IT consultant companies in Sweden. Results indicated that poor enforcement and evaluation could be explained to some extent by difficulties such as measurement, lack of proper technology and Green IT projects wrongfully placed within the organisations. Other common reasons were the financial crisis and Green IT being such a recent phenomenon. The results also show an average maturity across levels in the Green IT Capability Maturity Model of 71, 4 percent.}},
author = {{Hellmo, Lina and Ferizi, Liridona}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Difficulties being green? Investigating Green IT in IT consultant companies}},
year = {{2009}},
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