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Green Process Aiming at Reduction of Environmental Burden
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Through its Green Process activities, Fujitsu is reforming its manufacturing and production technologies using an evaluation method based on the Cost Green (CG) index, which covers both cost and environmental factors. Green Process activities were first introduced in 2002 at Fujitsu's Mie plant, a semiconductor manufacturing base that succeeded in reducing both its costs and environmental load. Green Process activities have already resulted in a reduction in the volumes of chemical inputs per unit product at semiconductor mass-production bases in Japan, for exam-ple, the Iwate, Aizuwakamatsu, and Mie plants.
... This paper focuses on the semiconductor industry-a less researched industry, but one that plays an important role with respect to environmentally sustainable manufacturing practices. As the semiconductor industry is an early environmental mover within the entire electronics industry [15], results from a study such as this can provide insights for the rest of the electronics industry when considering the adoption of the green supply chain. ...
... However, in calculating possible financial gains, firms should "deduct" the tangible and intangible costs of solving compatibility and complexity issues during the process of adopting a green supply chain. Semiconductor manufacturing is expensive and complicated and requires a high compatibility between manufacturing equipment and manufacturing processes [15]. Although cerain studies [18,56,57] contend that the relative economic advantage of the green supply chain thoroughly lies behind firms' decisions to adopt it, our research suggests that the practice of green supply chains has a maximum relative advantage for firms only when the practice has both a high degree of compatibility and a low degree of complexity. ...
The green supply chain is an innovation that extends traditional sustainability initiatives to environmental activities in the supply chain and aims to minimize a product's environmental impact throughout its life cycle. The adoption of a green supply chain involves a complex decision-making process characterized by multiple criteria. The goal of the current study is to construct a decision framework by identifying a comprehensive set of consideration factors and their causal relationships. The consideration factors are deliberately drawn from a variety of different, yet related, theories and are grouped into an extensive Technology-Organization -Environment (TOE) framework. In accordance with the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method, the decision framework was analyzed for appropriateness through surveys of selected experts in the semiconductor industry. Because the semiconductor industry has a long history of heavy resource usage and has proven an early advocate of green supply chains, results from this study can provide insights to other firms with similar operations and aims. The contributions of this research are twofold. First, its theoretical contribution consists of integrating previously separate strands of different theories into a holistic framework and exploring the causal relationships among decision factors. Second, its practical contribution lies in its establishment of a strategic path that provides firms a set of priorities when adopting green supply chains.
... Most of the business organisations aim at making profits to get financial returns. The green attributes of ecofriendly IT products not only grant environmental sustainability but also provide economical sustainability indirectly through reduced cost of power consumption, less operations and maintenance cost and minimised office space cost (Castro, 2009;Nagata andShoji, 2005 andDubie, 2009). Recognising such financial benefits most of the corporate firms are now moving towards green purchasing in order to evaluate their business in terms of cost benefit criteria (Ann et al., 2006;Tarig et al., 2010;Ravi et al., 2005). ...
... Most of the business organisations aim at making profits to get financial returns. The green attributes of ecofriendly IT products not only grant environmental sustainability but also provide economical sustainability indirectly through reduced cost of power consumption, less operations and maintenance cost and minimised office space cost (Castro, 2009;Nagata andShoji, 2005 andDubie, 2009). Recognising such financial benefits most of the corporate firms are now moving towards green purchasing in order to evaluate their business in terms of cost benefit criteria (Ann et al., 2006;Tarig et al., 2010;Ravi et al., 2005). ...
In the growing IT services and huge investments on IT infrastructure procurement in Saudi Arabia compared to other GCC countries in Middle East, it was identified fifteen enabling factors relevant to socioeconomic and environmental issues for corporate green IT purchasing. This study attempts to validate and test the interrelationships empirically among these enablers using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling respectively with a survey conducted in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For this a hypothesised model was proposed by postulating the impact of key factors on consumers’ green purchasing behaviour. Results suggest that the proposed model well fits with the data and majority of the hypothesised relations have positive influence on green purchasing behaviour except power consumption, performance, e- wastage disposal, global warming and eco-labeling and certifications failed to support the study indicating lack of awareness on these issues among the consumers. This study contributes for the industry, academia and also Saudi government to formulate new business strategies in promoting green IT products and to develop new regulations towards environment protection. Correspondingly implications and future research directions are also presented.
... • Cost sustainability: This includes acquisition and operating costs such as the choice of low cost hardware and software that also offer benefits such as low power consumption and ensure high levels of resource utilization. Life cycle management and replacement costs are also important consideration [7,11,28]. • Organizational sustainability: Organizational change is inevitable. Whether it derives from personnel changes or major changes in technology, markets, or mergers and acquisitions, IT services must continue to operate and innovate. ...
This study focused on the practice of using computing resources more efficiently while maintaining or increasing overall performance....
... • Cost sustainability: This includes acquisition and operating costs such as the choice of low cost hardware and software that also offer benefits such as low power consumption and ensure high levels of resource utilization. Life cycle management and replacement costs are also important consideration [7,11,28]. • Organizational sustainability: Organizational change is inevitable. Whether it derives from personnel changes or major changes in technology, markets, or mergers and acquisitions, IT services must continue to operate and innovate. ...
... Cost sustainability is one measure of e±ciency that includes the acquisition and operating costs of hardware and software that o®er attractive lifecycle costs and bene¯ts such as low power consumption and ensure high levels of resource utilization. Life cycle management and replacement costs are important considerations [Dubie (2009);Nagata and Shoji (2005)]. Organizational sustainability ensures the viability of the IT organization, as it deals with changing operational demands. ...
Sustainable Information Technology (IT) refers to the practice of utilizing computing resources more efficiently while maintaining or increasing overall performance. Sustainable IT's first wave is often referred to as "green IT" and primarily focuses on reducing energy costs and carbon footprints of datacenters and IT operations. However, it is the emerging second wave, which emphasizes the role of IT services as an enabler of the overall corporate sustainability strategy that may hold the most promise for sustainability-based innovation. This paper provides a review of the literature on the current state of sustainable IT and presents a strategy framework for its future development.
... One of the first approaches towards green computing was a sleep mode function in computers. Sleep mode function which places a computer place a computer on standby mode for a preset period of time [7,8]. The whole green aspect came about quite a few years back when the news that the environment was not a renewable resource really hit home and people started realizing that they had to do their part to protect the environment. ...
Most of the CO2 emissions are the product of heat generated by computer and various peripheral. Reducing carbon emission is the main task to create environment friendly system devices. The concept of green computing has begun to spread in the past few years, gaining popularity. Besides the widespread sensitivity with ecological issues, such interest also seems from economic needs, since both energy costs and electrical requirement of Information Technology (IT) around the world show a continuously growing trend. The main finding of this study is how to protect our environment from the harmful impact of computer and Eco-friendly devices. A comparison is made between conventional computing devices and environment friendly devices. The comparative study shows that we can save a substantial amount of power, make environment green by lesser heat generation while saving the cost.
... This includes acquisition and operating costs such as the choice of low cost hardware and software that also offer benefits such as low power consumption and ensure high levels of resource utilization. Life cycle management and replacement costs are also important consideration [7,11,28]. ...
Green computing refers to the practice of using computing resources more efficiently while maintaining or increasing overall performance. Sustainable IT services require the integration of green computing practices such as power management, virtualization, improving cooling technology, recycling, electronic waste disposal, and optimization of the IT infrastructure to meet sustainability requirements. Recent studies have shown that costs of power utilized by IT departments can approach 50% of the overall energy costs for an organization. While there is an expectation that green IT should lower costs and the firm's impact on the environment, there has been far less attention directed at understanding the strategic benefits of sustainable IT services in terms of the creation of customer value, business value and societal value. This paper provides a review of the literature on sustainable IT, key areas of focus, and identifies a core set of principles to guide sustainable IT service design.
An effective methodology to protect our environment from hazardous material and its effects that come from computer resources to sustain our environment and expenditure costs reduction associated with environmental resources misuse are termed Green computing. In this research document, the researcher focuses more on investigating awareness on Green computing practices while combating Covid‐19 at Institute of Health Science‐Gaborone. Computing is crucial in this time of Covid‐19 no modern business organization can excellently perform its operations without the use of computing. That is why it is now a necessity and mandatory to have organization aware of the negative impacts brought by computing on the environment and technologies initiated to help mitigate the situation. Green computing practices are mostly influenced by human knowledge, behavior and attitude. The study investigated different literature review on awareness of green computing practices with the assistance of several theoretical models such as Technology Acceptance Model which was utilized to present an economical explanation to the components that define the adaptation, which is generally applicable to many utilizing behavior from different computing innovations. The model provided a diagram to be of use in assisting people to accept the benefits brought by the implementation of Green computing practices in combating Covid‐19. The study was carried out with the help of closed answers questionnaire with 241 respondents involved with simple random sampling used to help select population size. Collected data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and Microsoft Excel. The findings reveal that the Institute of Health Science‐Gaborone has a low level of awareness on Green computing practices while combating Covid‐19. The study then came up with a proposed Green computing framework to assist in enforcing Green computing practices and It was also emphasized that education on Green computing awareness should be mandatory to keep users informed all the time in this technologically changing world
Reviews the current state of the development of sustainable IT services.
• Discusses the factors driving the development of green and sustainable IT.
• Examines the sustainability dimensions of IT: service, temporal, cost, organizational,
economic, environmental and societal sustainability.
• Discusses the corporate sustainability, social responsibility and IT.
• Summarizes the service-dominant logic with business, customer and societal values.
• Discusses the steps to integrate sustainable IT with business strategy.
• Explores the best practices from major IT to non-IT companies.
• Recommends a set of guidelines for sustainable IT services development.
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