Chapter 10: Case Study

Problem with the Suppliers

Question to Consider

1. How can an organization ensure that all the members of its supply chain will behave ethically?

Ans: The organizations should have a contract that all the members of its supply chain will signed it so that if something bad will happen in their organizations they have the way to deal  with it.

2. What responsibility does an organization have to ensure that its suppliers and business partners behave ethically?

Ans: The organizations will also behave ethically to have their trust to their suppliers and business partners. And if you do this the suppliers and your business partners will do the same.

Manufacturers Compete on Green Computing

Questions to Consider

1. How have green computing efforts lowered the total cost of computer ownership?

Ans: It will focus on how equipment power consumption impacts the overall power usage and total cost of ownership and deploy to meet their business needs. It will also briefly cover the general technological trends in the IT industry which are available in the race to meet green computing requirements.

source: http://www.towardsgreen.blogspot.com/

2. Which approach can yield greater benefits—building greener computers or implementing programs that change users’ behavior so that they operate their computers in a more responsible manner? Explain your response.

3. Do research at the EPEAT Web site and determine which computer manufacturer currently has the best green computing ratings.