the paper showcase the synergistic effect framework and apply it to a study on electricity energy groups of internet bidding platform on B2B supply business. We enumerate electricity grid enterprise group’s purchase system. Since 2006, by setting up the multi-layer purchase system based on internet. Chinese energy enterprise group began to adopt internet supply platform and take full advantage ...

Driven by the rapidly changing markets conditions, organizations from the utility and energy industry sector have to cope with increasing demand for change. This demand for change does not only arise from external forces as legal regulations and emerging innovations but also originates from strategic objectives within the company. Thereto, organizations from the industry sector strive for a fle...

Executive Summary/Abstract: This practice-oriented presentation describes the steps Aera Energy LLC took to institutionalize a successful Information Quality environment and practice. Key elements of the effort include information quality assessment and reporting, Enterprise Architecture planning and implementation, information stewardship, value-centric IT system development and an enterprise-...

Energy efficiency has become a very important concern for enterprise data centers due to the significant cost on electricity. To improve the energy efficiency of data centers, researchers and practitioners have proposed enormous work to reduce the energy consumption of data centers. Most of previous work focus on reducing the energy consumption of IT equipment; however, the power losses caused ...

The information systems research literature associated with sustainability has focused, by and large, on the ecological effects of computer manufacturing, components, toxicity of materials, energy usage in the manufacturing of computers, energy usage by deployed computers, and safe disposal of old machines. There has been scant or no attention paid to the effective use of information by firms f...