Green Computing in Business Information Systems: An NHS Perspective

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of green computing within the context of business information systems, specifically examining its global significance and its implications for organizations like the NHS. The analysis begins by highlighting the importance of green computing in mitigating the environmental impact of technology, emphasizing the shift towards eco-friendly practices and the reduction of carbon emissions. It then evaluates the opportunities and challenges posed by green computing, such as enhancing environmental sustainability, improving energy efficiency, and promoting recycling. The report further explores the relevance of green computing to applications, business information systems (BIS) solutions, and overall business strategy, including proposals for reducing energy consumption, reusing resources, and recycling products. The report also considers theories related to BIS and their practical applications in various scenarios, providing a comprehensive overview of green computing's role in modern business environments. The report also includes the significance of cloud computing and how it can be used in green computing.

Business Information Systems

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1:...........................................................................................................................................3
Global significance of green computing......................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Organisational opportunities and challlenges posed by green computing ..................................4
TASK 3:...........................................................................................................................................6
Green computing in terms of app, BIS and business strategy.....................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
Theories for Business information solutions ..............................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Business information system refers to the information that companies uses to manage
themselves effectively and efficiently which is being typically through technology and computer
systems. Primary component of business information system includes software, hardware, data
and various other procedures. It is the sets of inter related procedures using IT infrastructure in
an enterprise to disseminate and generate desired information. NHS is National health service
and publicly funded healthcare system which is based out of United Kingdom. It refers to
government funded medical and health care services provided to general citizen to UK at
reasonable and affordable cost. Present report will provide brief understanding to characteristics
and global significance of green computing, evaluate various organizational opportunities and
challenges posed by green computing. It will explain and analyse how are the green computing
requirements relevant to the app. BIS solution and business strategy being chosen. It will explain
theory which are being related to BIS and how it can be applied in various scenarios.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1:
Global significance of green computing
Technological advancement has empowered organizations to improve their working from
traditional working to current digitalized working by which its performance can be improved.
But due to increasing negative impact of technology on environment organizations have to
implement eco-friendly characteristics in its product developments, which has lead to green
computing (Kumar and et.al, 2020). With these enhancements organizations like NHS can
improve their performance on the ground level and also at the same time reduces impact on
environment by implementing disposable products and reduced carbon emission from the
products. In order to achieve this, organizations are improving the efficiency of the product in
such a way that high output is achieved at minimum input consumption, this can be seen in the
present time when products are much more efficient than compared to traditional products.
Through which electrical consumption of products is reduced due to which comparatively less
amount of resources are being utilized for electrical generation.

In order to increase the percentage of green computing electronic products are being
utilized on a global level which can be seen in case when mechanical systems where replaced by
electrical systems and currently at majority of cases electronic products are being used. This
signifies that the world is taking some serious steps in terms of reducing its resource utilization
but also at the same time is motivated for improving the efficiency of product at reduced size
(.Singh, Mahajan and Sood, 2019). Thus organizations like NHS are improvising their
organizational working strategy in such a way that they are able to reduce the e-wastage of
organization by reusing its products for which they have to recycle their products. This can also
be seen in case of cloud computing in which data is stores n internet through which less space is
consumed on physical hardware of the user due to which buying of new hardware for additional
space gets limited.
TASK 2:
Organisational opportunities and challlenges posed by green computing
As green computing is environmentally responsible and eco friendly use of computers
and their resources there lies lots of challenges and opportunities in this for an organistions. This
strategies helps in creating value, innovate and helps in building competitive advantage.
Opportunities- it helps the organisation to improve and enhance and environment sustainability.
It helps in creating energy efficient IT systems where it not only benefits environment
sustainability but also accounts to various efficient business processes and practices, which
includes manufacturing and carying out services which helps in attractino of target customers at
a wider range and helps company to grow in favourable manner. It helps in availing
opoportunity of efficient and effective design, creative manufacturing, use, operation and
disposable of communication and computer system which includes various hardware, software,
networks and storage which aims with Zero and minimal impact on environment (Müller, Kiel,
Voigt, 2018). This helps in benefiting environment by increasing energy efficiency by lowering
various gas emission, using materials that are less harmful and helps in reducing consumption of
resources in a manner that they are being utilised promionently and encourages to recycling and
reuse. Company opportunities also lies with information system to support, assist leverage
various activities and applications in domains which helps company to reduce energy and
resource cosumption which also helps in accounting to various carbon footprints. In addition

green computing helps in creating more sustainable environment by accounting to
dematerialization that is replacing physical goods with online goods and same with the services
in company. It helps in providing opportunity for re engineering, coordinating and optimizing the
supply chain, organizational workflow and various activities to minimize impact on the
environment in favourable manner. It lays down the opportunity of making business system,
operations more energy efficient, helps in decision making in the company by modelling,
analysing and stipulating various environmental impacts. It helps company in providing
platforms for management that are eco friendly and not accounts to emission, it helps in
providing knowledge of the environment which can be analysed by the company to support its
maangement system and accounts to decision-making in the company (Albahlal, 2019). It helps
in promoting green awareness among various stakeholders and helps the same in promoting
green initiatives which includes uses of various social media platforms and various other means
on how to spread awareness among various issues such as creating energy efficient process and
various others.
Challlenges- There are various challenges faced by the company in regards with green
computing which can be with the company facing problems with eco-friendly design that
involves complex business process in designing energy efficient and environment friendly
components for various computing systems (Farhan, 2018). Includes challenges of usage of
green materials and various process that are optimised of manufacturing components related to
green computing and various others subsystems which has minimal and no impact on
environment where company has to face various challenges to implement the same. Its
challenges also lies in reducing energy consumption, by optimising efficiency and using the
system which are in ways of being environment friendly and favourable manner. It lies with
avoiding non scientific disposals by proper implementing and recycling of various computing
component that are non harmful and in ways which are eco friendly and being safe. Company
also account with the challenges of abiding by various green standards and policies which can
helps in comparing, promoting and bench marking its various services and products (Todeschini,
2017). In nutshell it could be understtod as challenges that lies with maximising energy
efficiency, promoting recycability, reducing carboon footprints, various harmful emisssion and
helps in devicing various efficent disposable methods.

TASK 3:
Green computing in terms of app, BIS and business strategy
1. Overview of objectives-
Organizations have to develop its organizational working structure in such a way that it is
able to develop a effective relationship with its customers such that it is able to reduce the
chances of brand switching. For achieving this uses sources like application because of high
customer engagement but also at the same time company has to manage its data and for which it
has to store its data in cloud storages like BIS solutions which will reduce its expenditures on
buying hardware and managing storages. Through this company can develop effective
organizational strategy which will improve its performance in front of its customers (Beynon-
Davies, 2020).
2. Proposals to address reduction
Before understanding the solution the problem has to be understood, computing products
are made up of hardware and software. In which hardware part consist of two factors electrical
part and electronic part, in which electronic parts are small and consume less energy. On the
other hand electrical parts consumes comparatively more energy and requires resources at large
amount to be generated. Therefore product must be made in such a way that comparatively large
amount of electronic products must be used by which work efficiency can be increased and also
at the same time product size can also be reduced through this negative impact on environment
can be reduced.
Increase the quantity of electronic products is beneficial for long term energy
consumption but with that organization also has to reduce its expenditures in the short term
events like consuming hardware products for storing data. It is important for organization that it
is able to efficiently manage its customer data in such a way that it is easily available and
efficiently manageable (Brandon, 2016). In this step organizational data is stored on cloud by
which expenditures on buying tangible hardware is reduced. This will be beneficial for
organization because since tangible hardware are reducing in number then in that case company
can save spaces for storing its data and also at the same time efficiently reduce the unnecessary
data.
3. Proposals for addressing Reuse

Organizations like NHA improvise their use of organizational resources with time in such
a way that high organizational performance can be achieved at minimum expenditures. Company
is implementing the latest technological advancements in its work process due to which it is able
to increase its working capabilities in such a way that high organizational performance can be
achieved. Thus organization is increasing its involvement in other technological advancements
due to which it is reducing the use of existing organizational resources. This will make a
negative impact on company's performance because company's previous expenditures for
improving its working capabilities will be of no use, therefore company has to improvise its
working strategy in such a way that it is able to reuse its products. This is important for company
to use its resources because the workforces are provided training as per the products and if new
resources are being used then training has to be provided again which will increase company's
expenditures (Hosseini and et.al, 2016).
In terms of green computing organization can reuse its outdated organizational resources
for training the new joining about the basic organizational working process by which employees
will be able to efficiently get a faster understanding. Apart from that green computing products
can also be used as a framework for developing customized user interface as per the
organizational requirements. This will enable organization to reuse its previous expenditures for
developing a effective computing which will be having the good qualities of existing product and
also have the technological advancements as per the new technology which will increase the goal
achieving capabilities of the organization.
4. Proposals for Recycling
Recycling is one the main advantage of computing products because they are
environment friendly, thus make less negative impact on environmental conditions and also with
that it can be blended into other form which will improve organizational working. Recycling is
the process through which a unused waste product is changed into something useful such that it
can be used again. Thus green computing products are also recyclable which means that their
specialities can be used again as a raw material for the development of new product (Dornberger,
2018). This becomes more important in case of NHA because it has to develop products in such
a way that organizational expenditures because company provide hospitality services to its wide
range of customers. Therefore its products are specially made in such a way that the computing
facility of the organization is continuously connected with that internet to efficiently reach its

customers for fast service. With that the computing facility must also be able to quickly respond
to the users and also at the same time capable of storing large amount of data. This is important
because if in special cases internet facilities is interrupted then product must be able to store
large number of data because if the information is not stored or processed then it will make a
negative impact on company's performance.
5. Business strategy for improving social, economical and environmental impact
Organizations like NHS are increasing their geographic and demographic reach in such a
way that organizational customer count can be increased and this in order to achieve this
company has to improve its reach with organizational customers in such a way that their
engagement in organizational activities can be increased (Beck and et.al, 2017). Through this
company will develop effective communication bridge in such a way that chances of brand
switching can be reduced. Thus in order to achieve this company has to utilize all the necessary
customer data through which it can provide services on that basis and for that company has to
utilize computing options. Using computing options like app organization can increase its reach
directly to its customers and by using BIS solutions company can efficiently manage its data
through cloud computing in which limited hardware are used. Through this cloud computing
company manages to reduce its organizational expenditures by reducing hardware buying and
also it enables organization to reuse its investments in previous products. By this company's goal
achieving capabilities will increase because its expenditures are reduced resulting a strong
economic background.
TASK 4:
Theories for Business information solutions
There are various theory which justify the proposed business information solutions which
are being mentioned as below
Delone and Mcleans theory – it is being classified in six major categories and can be termed as
six dimension of success of information solutions such as that is its information , system and
service quality with intention to use, being user-friendly and with net benefits, which
demonstrate proposed association between its various success dimensions. It can be interpreted
as follows where a system can be evaluated in terms of information, service quality where the
characteristics affect the subsequent use or intention to use and user satisfaction which as a

result helps in achieving certain benefits. This net benefitts can certainly be positive and negative
and which influence satisfaction of user and the further use of information system. Each of this
variable is a composite of of diverse measures (Dornberger,2018) . It states that information
quality and system quality both affect and impact on use and satisafaction of user , which states
that amount of use can affect user satisfaction in favourable as well as unfavourable manner.
User satisafaction and use are directly related with each other and can be said as antecedents of
impact on individuals which results in impact on the company.
Diffusion theory- this is the theory which was being initially developed for farming
technologies, has been utilised and modified in several other technologies and diciplines. It sates
diffusion of innovation perceives that innovations are being communicated by a channel over
time in a system that is social in nature, it is the theory that sees to explain how, why and at what
rate new ideas and technologies spread. It states that technological innovations is new progress
and mixture of non material and material which helps company to expand and account to
effective management of business opetrations and are originated from social psychology, the
theory of reasoned action which takes into consideration person's behavior is being determined
by behavioral intention, where intentions are functions of persons attitude and which contains the
performance of the behaviour with technoloogy acceptance . Diffusion occurs through various
decision making process which occurs through series of communication channels over a period
of time along with the members of a similar systems where it identifies stages such as awareness,
interest, evaluation, trial and adoption with the innovation that aaccounts company to supports its
day to day functioning of business operations
Goodhue and Thompson – this states that for information system to have positive and
favourable impact on performance opf individual, the technology should be expoloited and must
be a good fit with the task that its supports. Task technology fits offers a robust basis of number
of issues associated with impact of informatio technolog on the individual performances, which
includes recognising impact of user involvement in performance (Wiesche,2017) . Tak
technology fit is new technology initiations and which helps in assist in recognising drivers of
acceptance for proposed intervention aimed at groups of users that could be less prone to utilise
and embrace systems tha are contemporary in nature.
The knowledge based view of the firm-Tihis theory is build upon and extends the resource
based theroy of the company which discusses various facts to knowledge integration which

relates to scope, efficiency and felexibility and four initial mechanism by which co-ordination of
knowledge occurs such as directives and rules, routines, sequencing and group problem solving
and decision making. It postulates services being rendered by resources that are being tangible in
nature depends upon how they are combined and applied which in turn serves as function of the
company know- how. Knowledge based resources are usually very difficult to copy and imitate
and which are socially complex therefore this view of firm which is being knowledged base that
these may help company in sustaining long term competitive advantage(Bichler, 2016)
Nolan stages theory- it sates set of concepts that helps in understanding absorption of IT in a
company. It centers on the topic that all companies expenditure on its computer system are
focused on S- shape curve over the time period, which helps in pursuing common models of
learning curves and various experience curves. It suggest that every organisation crossses with
the four stages of learning that is initiation, contagion , control and integration which helps in
determining organisational learning (Creon, Grover, Teng, 2017). It states that each member the
company builds their personal depiction of theory of company in use and tries to appreciate and
express themselves and their performance in the laid perspective of the company.
CONCLUSION
From the above analysis it can be concluded that technological advancements are
changing the ways of running organizations and interacting with each other which is much more
efficient than traditional means. This is good for organizations in terms of growing business but
it makes a negative impact on environment and therefore organizations have to change the ways
of developing products due to which green computing has to be implemented. This is a new field
in which technology has to grow itself and due to which it is facing challenges and is limited.
However with the proper integration of small consecutive steps technology can make a
significant impact in fulfilling green computing requirements. Green computing can be spread
through the means of software and hardware, in which hardware can be used for recycling
product with that software can be used for remote monitoring of physical implementations of
consecutive steps.

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