Sustainability Discussion question writing homework help
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Question to be discussed
Jonathan
Hujsak’s chapter on “sustainability’ really tails Hugos closely as it
does the previous chapter on green. Many of the arguments in both
previous chapters are reincarnate in this chapter. I do not see much
value in re-discussing electricity and the carbon footprint. I was
struck by several aspects of this chapter. The author writes (187):
“Information technology holds the promise of revolutionary improvements
in global enterprise sustainability that will dramatically enhance
enterprise agility, increase operational efficiency, and even turn cost
centers into profit centers.” Several innovations in data management are
reshaping the IT landscape. These are discussed in the chapter: server
virtualization, storage virtualization, desktop virtualization, and the
near future network virtualization. As an executive, the question raised
by the chapter regarding virtualization as a sustainability strategy is
less than a yes/no, but a when/how. We will ask ourselves, and discuss,
the extent to which the virtualization of processing portends the
removal of a dedicated IT staff. We will discuss the extent to which the
CIO is no longer the manager of a dedicated expert staff, but fully
engaged in vendor management and service oversight. Finally we should
ask ourselves the extent to which bricks and mortar will even define the
corporation as an entity. The corporation, or at least its
administrative wing, is more of an abstract. Does it matter if the
processing engine of your corporate data is in Bangladesh or Nairobi?
Does it matter what flag the vendor’s employees salute or what god they
worship? Once we have achieved global network infrastructure stability
and redundancy, we may find ourselves seriously questioning our
understanding of “corporation” or even employment.