Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
From the category archives:
I had a chat recently with IBM’s Vice President, Product and Strategy for the Enterprise Content Management, Ken Bisconti. We had a great discussion around enterprise paper reduction strategies and IBM’s recently announced Smart Archive initiative.
Here is a transcription of our conversation:
Tom Raftery:
Hi everyone, and welcome to GreenMonk TV. My guest in the show today [...]
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I hate paper.
Always have. If there is a way to do something electronically, rather than on paper, I will always chose the electronic way.
Why? Well, as I said in a previous post:
The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer of water used in industrial activities in OECD countries and [...]
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I spoke to Peter Graf, SAP’s Chief Sustainability officer recently and we discussed SAP’s successful internal paper reduction initiative. SAP has a KPI-led target to reduce the amount of printed paper by 20% in 2009!
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IBM has signed a new services agreement with Germany’s Federal Employment Agency, Bundesagentur fur Arbeit (BA) to help the agency file, distribute, process and manage documents electronically.
Given how much energy and water goes into paper production and transportation, this move to e-government has got to be a big win for the planet!
See http://bit.ly/168oFS for [...]
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Paper reduction is just not a sexy topic. Virtualising your servers, making your building more energy efficient, or using TelePresence to reduce your carbon footprint – these are big, exciting, engineering projects. How can you compete with that?
Well consider three little known facts:
The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer [...]
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