A new plan unveiled by the government has made
finance directors responsible for helping to achieve green ICT targets.
The Greening Government ICT plan was published by Tom Watson, the minister for transformational government and highlighted areas to be addresses in order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2012.
Dofonline.co.uk reports that
finance directors now have to ensure that environmental aspects and consequences of ICT procurement are now fully evaluated.
Lynne Munns, general manager of Version One, told the site that organisations should "invest in document management systems" and cut the amount of printers used.
"These systems are crucial to achieving carbon neutrality by 2012 as they replace the printing-out, postage and manual filing of documents with electronic processes for document creation, delivery, management and storage," she added.
Naguib Kheraj, the new chief executive of investment banking firm JP Morgan Cazenove, recently told Accountancy Age that
finance directors now have "less influence" in business.
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