Implementing Green IT Technology for Sustainable Development

The assignment details explore the concept of green IT technology and its implementation in Host Europe, a company aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The main learning outcomes involve understanding corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and the benefits of certified management systems. The answers provided highlight the importance of implementing green IT technology for sustainable development and the benefits it can bring to organizations.

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Answer 1:
The case study deals with issues that takes place in the medium sized IT sector industries.
The case study puts forward the case of Host Europe, which is the third largest company for web
hosting. The organization has been trying hard to improve the corporate social responsibility I
order to produce more efficient and the effective products. The Host Europe organization has
been looking forward to apply the green IT concept to its various products (Riahi et al., 2017).
The issues of the green IT that include the emission of the green house gases. The Host Europe
has built a new data centre which is energy efficient. The organization is also looking forward to
switch to renewable type of energy in order to do away with the problem of the emission of the
green house gases.
The main learning outcome can be seen as the knowledge of the basic level of corporate
social responsibility in a medium sized organization or business. There can be another view of
the main learning outcome, which involve the concept of advanced level of corporate social
responsibility and the various sustainability courses. The case study also teaches the need for
green IT technology and how the medium sized IT industries are working to implement the
technology in the workplace.
Answer 2.
The Host Europe company is not certified in accordance to the environmental standards
or the social standards. A new strategy can be developed in order to know how to implement the
proper management of the system to the company. The more developed corporate social
responsibility application to the organization would be much more developed in organizing and
the management of the system (Tai & Chuang, 2014). The company has already put many efforts

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for the improvement of the quality of the various products and the management of the various
products and activities of the organization.
The problem of emission of the green house gas can be improved by the improving the
environment and creating product that are not harmful to the environment. The technology of
green IT can be implemented in order to manufacture products that does not harm the
environment (Katsikeas, Leonidou & Zeriti, 2016). The implementation of the green IT
technology would mean manufacture of the IT devices and products that do not harm the
environment. The green IT technology would mean the use of raw materials that do not emit
harmful gases. The IT computers from the starting of manufacturing to the end of lifetime of the
device, emits carbon emission and effects the environment. With more number of people starting
to use products that are environment friendly, the requirement of green IT products have
increased.
Answer 3.
There are several benefits of certified management system. There are a number of other
management systems that fall under the certified management system such as the financial
management system, information management system, food safety management system and
many other management system (Laudon & Laudon, 2016). All of these management systems
are integrated together in order to make the organizations run in an efficient manner. The various
benefits may involve the tasks becoming easier for the organization. The organization can store
the information about the similar kind of task for future use. If the organization encounter the
similar kind of task in the future then the previous algorithm can be applied to perform the task

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faster. The drawback may involve too much dependency on the automation for carrying out the
task thus leaving a chance for errors.
The business continuity management system can be implemented as the management
system can be implemented for identification of the internal and the external risk to the business
(Watters, 2014). The identification of the business threat can be helpful in putting the business at
a better position. The management plan can be implemented by the method of strategic
information system. The strategic information system can identify the risk to the business and
also provide solution to overcome the risk.
Answer 4.
The Host Europe CSR and sustainability measures help the organization to improve the
quality of the product and produce efficient products. The customers opt for products that are
friendly to the environment. The organizations as a result shift to producing products that do not
involve the emission of the greenhouse gases. The organization has taken various steps in order
to products that are sustainable (Soccol et al., 2016). The investors look to invest in the projects
that are environment friendly. Thus, the Host Europe company is at a advantage having applied
the various steps to improve the quality of the products and produce the products in an effective
way so as to attract more number of customers and investors.

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