Group items tagged strategy - World is Green

shared by Suhit Anantula on 15 Jul 08 - Cached

Ever since strategy arose as a managerial discipline in the 1960s, business leaders have been honing their analysis of where and how to compete, grow, and best manage their organizations. Strategic and organizational models or frameworks help inform these decisions, offering shorthand for qualitative analysis of potential scenarios and insight on what options to adopt.
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shared by Suhit Anantula on 02 Jul 08 - Cached

Speaking at the launch of the new strategy, which sets out how the U.K. plans to meet its target of generating 15 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the "green revolution" would result in a tenfold increase in the U.K.'s current renewable energy capacity.
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shared by Suhit Anantula on 02 Jul 08 - Cached

IBM can then assist clients in a range of CSR areas, including: -- Carbon footprint analysis and management; -- Environmental procurement; -- CSR policy development and monitoring for suppliers; -- "Green" data center; -- Information sharing and engagement with customers, shareholders, regulators and advocacy groups; -- Linking philanthropy to corporate strategy; -- Diversity and labor practices; -- Engagement with employees on CSR.
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shared by Suhit Anantula on 15 Jul 08 - Cached

Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects a move from PCs to HP thin clients will cut energy consumption by 5 million kilowatt-hours, save about $500,000 annually, and reduce CO2 emissions by 6.5 million pounds per year, Computerworld reports. The network of more than 45,000 thin client terminals – operated through 743 terminal servers – connects Enterprise rental offices throughout the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Puerto Rico. Thin clients use only 13.6 watt-hours and 2.4 watt-hours of electricity in active and passive states, respectively, compared with the 77.1 watt-hours and 1.8 watt-hours consumed by PCs.
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shared by Suhit Anantula on 04 Jul 08 - Cached

Today, the State of Utah announced moving to a four hour work week beginning August 1st in order to reduce expenses.  Workers will work ten hours for four days, Monday through Thursday, with no cut in salary.  Some offices will close on Fridays reducing the cost of utilities and saving the State $3 million per year from their $11 billion budget.  This is also being promoted as a green strategy as it's anticipated the State of Utah will also reduce its consumption of gas as Fridays it's fleet will be parked. 
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shared by Suhit Anantula on 03 Jul 08 - Cached

The CEOs of 100 large multinational corporations -- including companies from carbon-intense industries -- have signed a World Economic Forum statement [PDF] that calls on the G8 to create a strategy to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050.
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