Information systems flexibility for green technologies

Abstract

Green IT has taken the IT industry by storm and organizations need to be most flexible to accommodate the technologies that prevail in the industry. Green technologies emerge at a very fast rate and organizations need to adopt quickly to keep a competitive edge. IS flexibility plays an important role in aligning its architectures and systems with the changing need of organization and customer demand in the context of Green IT. Each technology goes through a hype cycle and becomes obsolete because of innovations at regular intervals. Hence, flexible information systems designed to accommodate changes in Green Technologies need a special focus as the problem is relevant to modern-day context. This paper proposes a conceptual model that demonstrates IS Flexibility for Green Technologies. It focuses on key aspects of environmental dynamism, IS Flexibility, Organizational Flexibility, Business/Technological Change and Change Process. The change process is explored in the context of Green IT for strengthening the IS Flexibility in organizations.