Comments on: ICT: Part of the solution to climate change http://www.katescomment.com/ict-solution-climate-change/ Thoughts on British ICT, energy & environment, "Cloud", and security from Memset's MD Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tony http://www.katescomment.com/ict-solution-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1920 Tony Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:42:35 +0000 http://www.katescomment.com/?p=423#comment-1920 One thing that we have done is implement a video conferencing system. Total cost to the company about £18,000. It is estimated that it has saved about £100,000 in travel / accomodation costs for each year that we have had the system. An analysis of expenses shows a reduction of around 45% for all claimed mileage. It has significantly reduced the amount of flights that senior managers needed to take - 5 years ago, the CEO made 80 return flights a year, now it is down to under 20. As you can imagine, this has also made a huge difference to their efficiency and to their work / life balance, as well as reducing the carbon footprint. It has also contributed to a slightly improved attitude to collaboration between the various departments at the different business units - although I know that we could do more. One thing that we have done is implement a video conferencing system. Total cost to the company about £18,000. It is estimated that it has saved about £100,000 in travel / accomodation costs for each year that we have had the system. An analysis of expenses shows a reduction of around 45% for all claimed mileage.

It has significantly reduced the amount of flights that senior managers needed to take – 5 years ago, the CEO made 80 return flights a year, now it is down to under 20. As you can imagine, this has also made a huge difference to their efficiency and to their work / life balance, as well as reducing the carbon footprint.

It has also contributed to a slightly improved attitude to collaboration between the various departments at the different business units – although I know that we could do more.

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