Project Management: Major Sustainability Initiatives Taken By Canon and CSC

This report discusses the benefits of Green IT and the initiatives taken by Canon and CSC to promote a sustainable environment. Canon has implemented a recycling program for their cartridges and has invested in carbon monitoring tools. CSC promotes recycling programs, uses renewable energy, and integrates green elements in their processes.

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Project Management: Major Sustainability Initiatives Taken By Canon and CSC
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Executive Summary
The implementation of Green It has helped organizations in many ways. It
reduces the cost incurred in resources. It reduces the energy consumption. Companies such as
Canon and SAS have implemented Green IT. This implementation has been beneficial for the
companies in many ways. This report discusses the benefits that Green IT has provided to the
companies and the initiatives taken by the organizations to be environment friendly.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Case study analysis..........................................................................................................................4
Initiatives taken by Canon...........................................................................................................4
Initiatives taken by CSC..............................................................................................................8
Conclusion and Recommendations................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Green Information Technology has currently become one of the most widely used and
essential data intensive business sources of energy that has become both costly and scarce.
According to United States, environmental protection agency the estimated cost of utility has
become $7.4 in the year of 2010 and simultaneously has become $4.5 Billion in 2015. For this
particular report, the nominated companies are Canon and CSC and the aim of these companies
are to develop sustainable green IT footprint (Esfahani, Rahman and Zakaria, 2015). After
analyzing the case studies, the detail actions rather initiatives those have been undertook by the
companies are elaborated in this report.
Carbon Footprint is defined is one of the most serious issues that the large to medium
companies are continuously facing (Deng and Ji, 2015). The carbon footprint is a measurement
of carbon dioxide emission, which is associated to the activities of the entities. This includes
direct emission from cars. With 4 percent of the total population of the world contributes a 25
percent of the world’s greenhouse gas. Only America produces a 20% of the total emitted CO2.
Due to these reasons the environment gets always negatively impacted that has to be controlled
professionally (Jnr, and Pa, 2015). Different sustainable IT practices are identified and applied in
the business organizations to reduce the risks. In addition to this, the IT companies also consider
different green IT strategies so that the issues of the carbon emission can be resolved.
Case study analysis
Initiatives taken by Canon

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The company named as Canon was established in the year of 1978, which is a subsidiary
of United States (US), $45 Billion. The company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and the
total number of employees working fir the company is around 1100 (Koo, Chung and Nam,
2015). The stakeholder of the company gives allows all the products to be division the objectives
to achieve through sustainability. These divisions are again scored against each other, which
imply that environmental awareness is generally built within the company. In order to become
one of the most well known operational and functional companies in the world it is necessary for
the company to make the division priority (Patel, Mehrotra and Soner, 2015). For reaching all
areas of sustainability the terms
competition and co-operation has become an integral part to the company.
There are many global companies, which believe in gaining benefit from the stakeholders
associated to the project. This is the responsibility of the stakeholders to become good corporate
citizens also. In case of Canon the responsibility was undertake by Kyosei a specific business
philosophy that has promoted an idea of both working and living together for a common shared
business goal (Unhelkar, 2016). The spirit of co-operation is very much important to Canon. In
order to become one of the innovative as well as successful manufacturers of technology they
have installed multi functional devices in their company to reduce the excessive emission of gas
pollutants and loss of energy. The new technical model developed by the company is more
effective and efficient from the business sustainability perspectives. The sustainability advantage
programs have joined professionally by Canon (Piattini, 2016). In order to reduce the resource
reduction plan the company is further looking for more specifications by making basic carbon
audits. Canon has put together the carbon strategies by using the advantage methodology. The
company has developed a small team to identify the potential directions to reduce the overall

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company emissions. This company gives the consumers best possible solution to the consumers
(Ainin, Naqshbandi and Dezdar, 2016). The company had moved their state offices in smaller
regions and much more energy effective premises. Moreover, it can be said that, the company
serves an energy efficient service to their consumers. Some global initiatives taken by Canon
include producing products that are environmentally conscious, promoting some environmental
programs.
Canyon had introduced a recycling program where the cartridges used by their products
can be recycled (Kharchenko and Illiashenko, 2017). It would be dangerous for the environment
if huge number of cartridges used were dumped into the environment. Products manufactured by
Canon are used worldwide and the number of cartridge dumped would be countless. This is
devastating for the environment (Simmonds and Bhattacherjee, 2014). Therefore, the company
introduced a special type of cartridge that could be utilized. Canon adapted an appropriate
recycling program. These cartridges allow the users to conserve environmental resources by
reusing the empty ink as well as toner cartridges. These empty cartridges are used as resources
for new cartridges (Matsumoto and Nasr, 2016). The cartridges are recycled by following
various processes. At first, the ink and the cartridge would be dismantled into various
components by recycling vendor. Metal and plastic are the basic components of the cartridge.
The plastic and metal would be used in producing new products. This minimizes waste as well as
the necessity of extracting new materials. The parts that are non-recyclable are incinerated. This
process of recycling helps minimizing wastes as well as pollution (Tong and Wong, 2016).
Along with that, it also increases resource recovery. The ink used in cartridges is very harmful
for the environment. If it is dumped in landfills, it will affect the soil largely. A part of land
might get barren if cartridges are regularly disposed. After raining this residue of ink would, get

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drained into the water bodies, which will be harmful for the organisms, that dell in water. This
disposal of hazardous wastes into water bodies effect people living in that are because that
extract water for daily use from nearby water body (Cannavò, Lane and Barry, 2014). If they use
the water of effected water body, they will be diagnosed with various diseases. The used
cartridges are then returned to the company’s corporate customers. The process do returning the
cartridge is made hassle free in order to encourage participation. Customers using Canyon
cartridges can indicate when their cartridge gets over. They do it for returning the old cartridges
and get new ones (Fan, Pan and Yang, 2015). The courier deliverer is assisted to deliver the new
orders and collect the old cartridges. These cartridges are collected for recycling. This process
includes no additional effort as well as additional cost. Canon restricts using some substances
that are lead, mercury, Polybrominated Biphenyls, Cadmium, Hexavalent chromium and
polybrominated diphenyl ether (Di, Fan and Yang , 2015). Canon has introduced a project called
project Homecoming. A program recycles ink as well as toner cartridge. This project engages the
authorized partner for recycling the products. This program ensures that the entire process of
separating, dismantling and processing of the cartridges are carries out safely and correctly.
These initiatives help Canon to nurture its social responsibilities among its customers, efforts in
long term and sustaining the environment conservation habits (Zhang, Akwei, and Zhang, 2016).
The company has always wanted to reduce their emission of carbon. For this, they made use of
the advantage of sustainability methodology. With the help of this, they had put together their
strategy for carbon reduction. For implementing their plans, they have formed smaller teams.
Then they identified their potential ways that could reduce the emission of carbon. In addition to
this, they also produced a McKinsey curve for cost of abatement. This curve helped them to
identify their opportunities. Canon has been a sales as well as marketing company. This made

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them realize that the major source of carbon emission was present in their own buildings. They
intently took action against this and shifted their state offices to comparatively smaller premises.
They ensured that these premises were energy efficient too. They also took actions to improve
energy efficiency of their head office, which is located at North Ryde (Sharma, Chandna, and
Bhardwaj, 2017). The company has also invested in carbon monitoring tools. These tools could
detect the amount of carbon released by the company in the process of producing their products
and services. This confirmed the company that their process does not release much carbon. The
information extracted from the company’s electricity meters is provided into the tool. This helps
thee tool to recognize ways by which carbon emission can be reduced. Canon has always
committed to reduce its impacts on the environment. It has reduced the impacts on every stage of
a product’s lifecycle, from sourcing the raw materials, innovation of technology at global level to
managing their local facilities efficiently. Canon has its recycling program at its sites. The
products and parts that are returned to the company by customers are refurbished, reused or
recycled (Srivastav, and Gaur, 2015). Canon has involved numerous times in industry as well as
government programs in order to establish schemes of collecting as well as disposal of wastes.
Cartridges are collected from customers when they order for new cartridges. These used
cartridges are recycles and used again. This cycle continues in order to prevent the cartridges
from getting disposed in landfalls. They do not believe in disposing the wastes into landfills.
Initiatives taken by CSC
Computer Sciences Corporation also known as CSC has been an American multinational
corporation. This company has provided services on information technology and some
professional services. It has merged with Enterprise Services line on 3 April 2017. This was done
in order o create DXC technology (Matsumoto and Nasr, 2016). It has been ranked as the leading

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companies that provide IT services in the entire world. The company had been ranked eighth in
the Software Magazine for the largest software service provider. Companies that provide
software services like internet connection, broadband connection and many more tend to produce
some hazardous substances that are released into the environment. These substances effect the
environment in many ways. CSC aims in creating limited impacts on environment. They dispose
their residual products safely so that they do not affect the environment. They have done this by
promoting effective as well as efficient recycling program (Cannavò, Lane and Barry, 2014). The
company allows the customers to return its products that are no more in use. These products are
taken back free of cost and in order to safely dispose the useless products. Thus in return reduces
the overall count of e-waste. The company also takes products from other companies for
disposal. The products include router, cables, printers, computers, monitors. The company has
also contributed in going green by utilizing less amount of energy required for producing its
products or services. CSC provides software services. These services require a continuous supply
of energy. The company has promoted many campaigns to promote conservation of energy. It
also promotes the use of renewable resources of energy along with clean energy products. CSC
has supported as well as funded projects on green energy (Matsumoto and Nasr, 2016). This is
done by buying and then installing a huge number of windmills as well as solar panels. This
company went green when it had realized the need and benefits of sustainable environment.
Sustainable development increases the amount of customers. People who are environment
conscious and want to contribute in sustainable environment would prefer the products and
services of the company that promotes and supports sustainable environment. CSC had
introduced a scheme where people who support sustainable environment by buying their
products or using their services would be provided with impressive offers. This scheme

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impressed the loyal customers as well as increased the number of customers. The company
integrates green elements in the processes used by them. It reduces the impacts of its products
and services on the environment. Its products and services leaves negligible amount of carbon
footprint on the environment. Its products are completely recyclable. In order to do this the
company takes various impressive steps. The company is committed to using renewable energy.
CSC realizes the use of sustainable environment in the business. The products that are
environment friendly are very much useful for the company. It utilizes fewer amounts of
resources of the company. It also increases the revenue of the company. CSE has been operating
since 1959, in Los Angeles. This organization has been dealing with the processing of the
Information Technology. By the end of the 1960s, the processing of the project was being
progressed in an efficient rate, leading to the fact that the processing of the organization was very
productive in nature. This fact ensures that the data processing will be performed in a very
efficient way. This includes the processing of the data in a very proficient accent. This aspect
was acting as the main reason behind the success of the organization. This was the main reason
that lead to the fact that Computer Sciences Corporation was taking a huge leap in the processing
of the project. During the late 1960s , the organization was already related to the likes of IBM
and HP enterprise (Park and Jeong, 2014). The transaction of the data in the process the business
was transformed in a very efficient manner. This made the organization to be ne off the most
efficient brands that deals with the transaction of the information technology services. due to the
fact that the organization Computer Sciences Corporation was dealing in huge content the major
thing that came into the mind of the higher authority of the organization was the disposal f the e
wastes that was created during the processing of the transaction that the organization perform.
This will ensure the fact that the processing of the data will prices the fact that the data

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transaction will be consuming the major part of the processing of the task. the processing of the
data ensures the fact that it will require the processing of the internet and the entire process will
hence generate a lot of waste that are harmful in nature. The major problems with the e waste are
that they are not degradable and they stay in the environment for a long period affecting the
environment in a drastic way (Jnr and Pa, 2015). This lead to the fact that the higher authorities
of the Computer Sciences Corporation started bothering regarding the waste management that is
created by the organization. In this case, the organization tried to use many applications to
dispose the wastes that were generated during the processing of the transacting of the
information technology data. The governing committee of the organization decided to deploy the
methodology of the processing of the Green Information Technology processing, leading to the
fact that the asset management was managed with proper methodologies. This ensured the fact
that the processing of the waste management was done with the processing of the green IT
(Zhang and Xie, 2015). This will ensure the fact that the processing of the green IT will be done
with the help of the processing of the data transmission leading to the fact that the data
transmission will lead to the lack of transmission of the waste is stopped and the processing of
the project hence is considered waste free. Hence Computer Sciences Corporation cats as an
example for all the organizations that deal with the Information Technology had data
transporting.
Conclusion and Recommendations
From the above report, it can be concluded that the application of green IT has been very
beneficial for the organization Canon and CSC. Green computing is not a new concept. Green IT
is itself a technology. Going Green is taking a move to become more environments friendly and

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use natural resources as much as possible. It also reduces cost incurred for buying the resources
needed to produce the products or services. In order to implement Green It in business it is
important to have knowledge regarding the resources required for the production of its services
or products. Both the companies Canon as well as CSC have implemented methods to be
environment friendly. The implementation of Green It is definitely useful for organizations but
they are much more expensive while implementation. Such as implementing solar panels in an
organization indulges too much cost. Going green is a slow process. It does not happen
overnight. Some recommendations that can be utilized for implementing Green IT in the
companies and make them environment friendly.
Buying hardware that is energy efficient: Major hardware vendors offer workstations,
notebooks and servers. These meet the energy star guidelines. This helps in lower power
consumption. A multi-core processor increases the processing outputs. It does not increase the
energy usage. They also provide high efficiency in power along with fans that are temperature
controlled and processors that utilize low voltage for functioning.
Use technologies that can manage the power used: systems can be set in hibernate mode
when not used. This process powers down the CPU and RAM. The hardware vendors have own
power management softwares. These softwares either are loaded in their system or offer them as
options. These can be installed in computers in order to make the computer utilize fewer
resources.
Consolidate the storage with SAN/NAS solutions: just in the way server consolidation
saves energy, consolidation of storage also helps in saving energy.

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