Abstract
There is a growing corporate interest in IT energy efficiency. This will potentially impact also outsourcing decision making. In infrastructure, suppliers are focusing on increasing the IT energy efficient of their solutions. In this research 166 Dutch IT executives indicated the importance of IT energy efficiency in outsourcing decision making for infrastructure services. Is IT energy efficiency a decisive selection criteria in outsourcing decisions? The expectation is that the importance of IT-energy efficiency in outsourcing decisions increase for organization with a larger revenue, with a larger revenue outside the Netherlands, with a larger revenue outside the Europe, with a larger IT spend and larger external spend of organizations. In this research also test the expectation the importance of IT-energy efficiency in outsourcing decision making, is larger for organizations which apply for European tendering than for organizations which don’t apply for European tendering. The expectations are tested by the Chi-squared test and the Cochran-Armitage test for trends. In additional to the statistical tests also survey data is qualitatively analysed. The data indicates the importance of IT energy efficiency in outsourcing decision making as 37 % of the organizations of the respondents include IT energy efficiency in outsourcing decision making. In one out of four organizations IT energy efficiency was discriminator in the selection of the infrastructure services supplier.
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The mission of ICT Media is to facilitate Dutch IT decision makers. The community of ICT media consists of Chief Information Officers and the their direct reports. The community is supported by a knowledge portal and business magazines. ICT Media also regularly facilitates round tables, such as round tables on IT energy efficiency (2011 and 2012). ICT Media has an active community which represents the Chief Information Officers community in the Netherlands.
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The author would like to thanks Rob Beijleveld, Jorick van der Vlies and Arnoud van Gemeren from ICT Media (www.ictmedia.nl) for inviting the members of the ICT Media community to participate in the survey and for facilitating the execution of the survey. The author would also like to thank Pierre Gorissen and Neel Bhagodia for sharing their valuable insights.
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Beulen, E. (2015). The Importance of IT Energy Efficiency in Outsourcing Decision Making: A Survey in the Dutch Outsourcing Infrastructure Market. In: Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., Willcocks, L. (eds) Achieving Success and Innovation in Global Sourcing: Perspectives and Practices. Global Sourcing 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26739-5_14
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