Green procurement on the rise
The ‘Greenness’ of technology vendors will become an increasingly important deciding factor as IT executives look for new purchases, according to the results of a new survey by market researcher, IDC.
It is becoming clear across the board that end-users will be expecting vendors to take more responsibility in terms of bringing ‘Green’ products and services to market as well as improving their own internal ‘Green’ operations and practices in the future, the report said.
According to Philip Carter, Head of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Green IT practice, “It is interesting to see that IT executives are expecting vendors to take more responsibility in the area of Green IT. This is validated by the fact that 81% of organizations thought that the ‘Greenness’ of their IT suppliers would become ‘much more important’ over the next few years. Today, 18% of the organizations surveyed considered the greenness of the IT suppliers before making a selection and another 30% expected to do so in the near future.
“Furthermore, organizations in the more developed economies are looking to integrate ‘green requirements’ into ‘requests for proposals’ for procurement of IT products and services. In Japan for example, more than half (52%) of the organizations surveyed indicated that this is already part of their procurement process. The fact that this approach is still emerging in other countries highlights the varied adoption with regards to ‘Green IT ‘ in the region.”
The findings were part of IDC’s ongoing Asia/Pacific Green Poll – end user surveys assessing the buying behaviour of IT executives with respect to Green IT in the Asia/Pacific region.
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