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What is Collaboration At All Levels

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Green ICT: Technology, Business and Social Perspectives
Collaboration defined in the context of business where people within a business, external contractors and other vendor staff and ultimately clients share information and participate in common business processes for the purpose of work.
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Collaboration as a Key Enabler for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Implementing Green ICT
Ioakim Marmaridis (IMTG, Australia) and Bhuvan Unhelkar (IMTG, Australia)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-834-6.ch017
Abstract
Global competitiveness through advances in ICT is giving SMEs abilities that up until a few years ago were inconceivable. Along with increased market reach and added impact SMEs also begin to feel the pressure of becoming more ecologically friendly. Therefore, they need to establish Green ICT practices within their businesses. While these practices are relatively better resourced in large businesses, SMEs find it rather challenging to implement Green ICT practice because of their size and amount of resources they can put behind such initiative. This chapter describes how collaboration can be used as a key enabler for SMEs adopting Green ICT for their operations. Green ICT improvements are presented in the context of people, process and technology framework and individual solutions are offered along with their benefits that SMEs can readily adopt and begin their transition towards Green ICT.
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