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Accenture Furthers Its Green Initiatives – Getting on Company’s Agendas Through IT
Accenture Furthers Its Green Initiatives – Getting on Company’s Agendas Through IT
Accenture recently announced its Accenture Green Technology Suite, which is a comprehensive set of tools focused on helping companies assess its environmental standing, provide recommendations to better manage its carbon footprint through effective IT management and supporting the entire organization’s green agenda.
What does this new toolset do? Here’s what Accenture promises:
o Provides a holistic view across the entire IT organization, including an assessment of the enterprise’s position on a green “maturity spectrum”
o Recommends IT initiatives to proactively address the company’s future carbon footprint
o Calculates impact of specific initiatives in terms of workplace environmental efficiency and data center energy savings
The “Accenture Green Technology Suite” includes:
The Accenture Green Maturity Model – to identify IT environmental efficiency, and recommendations to improve the organization’s overall environmental standing. Based on the responses to 300 questions, the maturity model produces a comprehensive scorecard rating organization on the green maturity spectrum on a 0-5 scale; and further comparing it to peers.
The Data Center Estimator for an assessment of environmental and financial impact of data centers, especially power usage and server effectiveness.
The Workplace Estimator – to help recycling and energy saving policies for personal computers and procuring new equipment with energy efficiency in mind.
Essentially, Accenture believes that IT can help companies better understand their power consumption and environmental footprint, enabling them to take focused actions for environmental improvements and profits. The improvement of IT infrastructure alone can lead to improvement, consider all the electric power absorbed by huge data centers, networks, servers, telecom equipment, printers and PCs in a typical company. This effort leverages Accenture’s might in an area not typically considered an environmental hazard (at least as compared to power plants, chemical plants and factories), but still has scope for improvement. In addition, it allows Accenture to promote its green agenda directly to the CIO and eventually to the CEO, as green initiatives start to take center stage on almost every managing executive’s long-term strategy.
Accenture indicates that the tool has been developed and tested and ready for client rollout, we will have to watch and see how this is embraced by clients, given that the tool’s effectiveness increases almost exponentially when new users join the survey. Also, interesting to watch how professional service firms are finding innovative ways to latch on the ever-growing green phenomenon.
Accenture, green agenda, Green Maturity Model, environment, IT, data centers, power consumption
Posted by: Big4 07.31.2008 11:46 am
Accenture recently announced its Accenture Green Technology Suite, which is a comprehensive set of tools focused on helping companies assess its environmental standing, provide recommendations to better manage its carbon footprint through effective IT management and supporting the entire organization’s green agenda.
What does this new toolset do? Here’s what Accenture promises:
o Provides a holistic view across the entire IT organization, including an assessment of the enterprise’s position on a green “maturity spectrum”
o Recommends IT initiatives to proactively address the company’s future carbon footprint
o Calculates impact of specific initiatives in terms of workplace environmental efficiency and data center energy savings
The “Accenture Green Technology Suite” includes:
The Accenture Green Maturity Model – to identify IT environmental efficiency, and recommendations to improve the organization’s overall environmental standing. Based on the responses to 300 questions, the maturity model produces a comprehensive scorecard rating organization on the green maturity spectrum on a 0-5 scale; and further comparing it to peers.
The Data Center Estimator for an assessment of environmental and financial impact of data centers, especially power usage and server effectiveness.
The Workplace Estimator – to help recycling and energy saving policies for personal computers and procuring new equipment with energy efficiency in mind.
Essentially, Accenture believes that IT can help companies better understand their power consumption and environmental footprint, enabling them to take focused actions for environmental improvements and profits. The improvement of IT infrastructure alone can lead to improvement, consider all the electric power absorbed by huge data centers, networks, servers, telecom equipment, printers and PCs in a typical company. This effort leverages Accenture’s might in an area not typically considered an environmental hazard (at least as compared to power plants, chemical plants and factories), but still has scope for improvement. In addition, it allows Accenture to promote its green agenda directly to the CIO and eventually to the CEO, as green initiatives start to take center stage on almost every managing executive’s long-term strategy.
Accenture indicates that the tool has been developed and tested and ready for client rollout, we will have to watch and see how this is embraced by clients, given that the tool’s effectiveness increases almost exponentially when new users join the survey. Also, interesting to watch how professional service firms are finding innovative ways to latch on the ever-growing green phenomenon.
Accenture, green agenda, Green Maturity Model, environment, IT, data centers, power consumption
Posted by: Big4 07.31.2008 11:46 am
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