Roundtables
IBM Whitepaper - The carbon management opportunity for mid-sized businesses
Legislation, rising energy prices and changing stakeholder expectations are compelling businesses of all sizes to focus on managing their carbon footprint. Just determining
the true carbon footprint across the extended supply chain is a huge challenge, let alone reducing it.
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Intelligent Solutions Needed to Power-Hungry IT Beast
We live in a world where people are connected to one another like never before, and this level of connectivity seems to be reaching new heights every year. But the IT which powers it is a very thirsty beast, drinking up electricity at an alarming rate and forcing millions of companies across the global to consider the damage their computer systems might be doing to the environment.
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Beaming Business Up Into the Here and Now
Only a few years ago, the idea of being able to see and hear people in other parts of the world as though they were all in the same room was one firmly fixed in the annals of science fiction. Today, telepresence is a reality, and more and more companies are using it as a means of organising effective conference meetings without the bother of having to jet across the world to get to them. Naturally, this saves money and has a beneficial effect on the environment. It sounds like a win-win situation, and there are many positives - not least for the executive who feels like he's spending half his life on the road, in departure lounges and sleeping in faceless hotels. But what's the reality of this brave new world, where time collapses in the face of technology, and how far has that technology advanced since the fevered imaginings of the creators of Star Trek?
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