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    The Green Agenda: A Business Guide
    The Green Agenda: A Business Guide
    The Green Agenda: A Business Guide
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    The Green Agenda: A Business Guide

    By Alan Calder

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    This business guide to green IT was written to introduce, to a business audience, the opposing groups and the key climate change concepts, to provide an overview of a Green IT strategy and to set out a straightforward, bottom-line orientated Green IT action plan. The guide presents a business-focused assessment of the climate change debate, enabling company directors and executives to appreciate the business benefits of a green IT strategy.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheritgovernance
    Release dateMar 5, 2009
    ISBN9781849281348
    The Green Agenda: A Business Guide
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    Alan Calder

    Alan Calder is a leading author on IT governance and information security issues. He is the CEO of GRC International Group plc, the AIM-listed company that owns IT Governance Ltd. Alan is an acknowledged international cyber security guru. He has been involved in the development of a wide range of information security management training courses that have been accredited by the International Board for IT Governance Qualifications (IBITGQ). He is a frequent media commentator on information security and IT governance issues, and has contributed articles and expert comment to a wide range of trade, national and online news outlets.

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      The Green Agenda - Alan Calder

      978-1-849281-34-8

      FOREWORD

      Climate change, global warming and, before that, the new ice age have all been fashionably topical issues about which individuals and organisations have worried themselves over the course of the last 20 years or so.

      Forrester, in a late 2008 report titled Market Overview: A Slowing Economy Won’t Slow Down Corporate Green IT Initiatives, says:

      ‘The slowing economy will not derail efforts to make IT operations more efficient and less environmentally harmful. In fact, of responding companies that are changing the pace of their Green IT activities in response to the economic outlook, those going faster outnumber those slowing down by two to one.’

      A plethora of often emotionally-held views about the reality or otherwise of climate change has emerged more recently. There is now a widely-held scientific consensus that global warming is a bad thing, will lead to the extinction of human life as we know it, and is all humanity’s fault. There are also opposing arguments, although these arguments are not as well known nor as widely promulgated (perhaps because those who have them are less well funded).

      Green has become an important business issue. If consumers want to buy from green organisations, then organisations have to consider their positions, their marketing strategies, their product ranges and their overall operational approach. While there is also a fast-growing market for suppliers of green products and services, there is a much larger group of organisations that do not yet know how they should respond to the green business challenge, not least because the business benefits of pursuing a green strategy are not necessarily that well articulated.

      Whatever else the modern organisation does, it almost certainly had an energy dependency, and it almost certainly uses and relies on information and communications technology (ICT or, more simply, IT). Energy is an expensive commodity, and IT infrastructure and running costs in most organisations are substantial. A business cost-containment strategy that focuses on these aspects of the IT cost base is also one that has direct, quantifiable climate benefits. From a simplistic perspective, it doesn’t really matter whether an organisation is motivated by a desire to save the planet or simply to save money, the results of pursuing a Green IT strategy will include both.

      This guide was written to introduce, to a business audience, the opposing groups and the key climate change concepts, to provide an overview of a Green IT strategy and to set out a straightforward, bottom-line orientated Green IT action plan. The fact that this will also enable the organisation to comply¹ with the growing range of ecologically-focused regulations is an additional benefit!

      ¹ See another of the pocket guides in this series: Compliance for Green IT, www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/2199 .

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Alan Calder is a leading author on information security and IT governance issues. He is Chief Executive of IT Governance Limited, the one-stop-shop for books, tools, training and consultancy on governance, risk management and compliance. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of CEME, a public-private sector skills partnership.

      Alan is an international authority on IT governance and, with Steve Moir, originated the innovative Calder-Moir IT Governance Framework. He is also an international expert on ISO27001 (formerly BS7799), the international security standard, about which he wrote with colleague Steve Watkins the definitive compliance guide, IT Governance: A Manager’s Guide to Data Security and BS7799/ISO17799. This work is based on his experience of leading the world’s first successful implementation of BS7799 (with the 4th edition published in May 2008) and is the basis for the UK Open University’s postgraduate course on information security.

      Other books written by Alan include The Case for ISO2700; ISO27001—Nine Steps to Success; IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors; IT Governance Today: A Practitioner’s Handbook and IT Regulatory Compliance in the UK.

      Alan is a frequent media commentator on information security and IT governance issues, and has contributed articles and expert comment to a wide range of trade, national and online news outlets.

      Alan was previously CEO of Wide Learning, a supplier of e-learning; of Focus Central London, a training and enterprise council; and of Business Link London City Partners, a government agency focused on helping growing businesses to develop. He was a member of the Information Age Competitiveness Working Group of the UK Government’s Department for Trade and Industry, and was until recently a member of the DNV Certification Services Certification Committee, which certifies compliance with international standards including ISO27001.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Much of the original content of this book is drawn from the IT Governance Best Practice Report on the subject of Green IT, which was developed by our in-house research and analysis team and published towards the end of 2008. Green IT—Reality, Benefits and Best Practices² provides comprehensive, current guidance for organisations that are addressing the challenge of greening their IT operations. This pocket guide, on the other hand, is designed as an express introduction for company directors and executives to a subject that is increasingly important today to corporations the world over.

      ² Read about and purchase this report from www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/1933 .

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