Chapter 20 - Innovation, social entrepreneurship, social networking, and virtual worlds. In this chapter you will learn: Explain the six best practices of innovation, identify how energy consumption and recycling IT equipment can lead to greener IT, describe the three ways organizations can use social networking, explain virtual worlds and virtual workforces and their impact on business. | BUSINESS PLUG-IN B20 Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Networking, and Virtual Worlds LEARNING OUTCOMES Explain the six best practices of innovation Identify how energy consumption and recycling IT equipment can lead to greener IT LEARNING OUTCOMES Describe the three ways organizations can use social networking Explain virtual worlds and virtual workforces and their impact on business 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION TRENDS The primary changes and challenges organizations are focusing on in the 21st century include: Innovation: finding new Social entrepreneurship: going green Social networks: who’s who Virtual worlds: it’s a whole new world INNOVATION: FINDING NEW Innovation is the introduction of new equipment or methods INNOVATION: FINDING NEW Innovation six best practices: Find your relevant edge Assemble innovations hothouses Reward risk takers Celebrate diversity Look around Mix practitioners and developers SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: GOING GREEN Social . | BUSINESS PLUG-IN B20 Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Networking, and Virtual Worlds LEARNING OUTCOMES Explain the six best practices of innovation Identify how energy consumption and recycling IT equipment can lead to greener IT LEARNING OUTCOMES Describe the three ways organizations can use social networking Explain virtual worlds and virtual workforces and their impact on business 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION TRENDS The primary changes and challenges organizations are focusing on in the 21st century include: Innovation: finding new Social entrepreneurship: going green Social networks: who’s who Virtual worlds: it’s a whole new world INNOVATION: FINDING NEW Innovation is the introduction of new equipment or methods INNOVATION: FINDING NEW Innovation six best practices: Find your relevant edge Assemble innovations hothouses Reward risk takers Celebrate diversity Look around Mix practitioners and developers SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: GOING GREEN Social responsibility - implies that an entity has a responsibility to society Corporate policy - refers to the position a firm takes on social and political issues Corporate responsibility - includes everything from hiring minority workers to making safe products Sustainable, or "green," IT - describes the manufacture, management, use, and disposal of information technology in a way that minimizes damage to the environment Energy Consumption Energy Consumption SUN Microsystems: Throughput Computing Microsystems designed what is known as a multicore chip Has several processors on a single sliver of silicon Running cooler with less energy but getting more work done Each processor can perform more than one task at a time Virtualization Virtualization - is a framework of dividing the resources of a computer into multiple execution environments Virtualization software allows multiple programs on a single machine and move programs from one computer to another on the fly Energy Rebate .
