Today, the question is not “Should we go green?” It is “What are some ways we can do that?”
. . . do we architect the application itself for efficiency? Applications architected with a business process focus have delivered 100% to 200% productivity gains. Here’s what my observation/research of around 500 Global IT initiatives has shown … Enterprises not only miss such efficiencies, they also miss the opportunity to optimize business processes (every app development initiative is a great opportunity to look at business process efficiencies). Even worse … when they reengineer an application, enterprises carry “technological fossils” from one generation of the application to the next.
The call for business process centric app development is not new … Forrester Research founder George F. Colony did it in his 2002 article “Naked Technology.” And his call was based on tech-spend analysis of Global 3,500 companies.
First posted in WordPress on April 22, 2009
- Should I focus on the data center, which does account for Carbon emissions? Improve server efficiency? Power off unused equipment?
- Or should I use software such as collaboration applications to reduce commuting and travel?
- How about specialized software such as those that help shift workloads to underutilized servers to reduce energy and floor space needs?
. . . do we architect the application itself for efficiency? Applications architected with a business process focus have delivered 100% to 200% productivity gains. Here’s what my observation/research of around 500 Global IT initiatives has shown … Enterprises not only miss such efficiencies, they also miss the opportunity to optimize business processes (every app development initiative is a great opportunity to look at business process efficiencies). Even worse … when they reengineer an application, enterprises carry “technological fossils” from one generation of the application to the next.
The call for business process centric app development is not new … Forrester Research founder George F. Colony did it in his 2002 article “Naked Technology.” And his call was based on tech-spend analysis of Global 3,500 companies.
First posted in WordPress on April 22, 2009