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Information Technology (IT) Management Frameworks are a fundamental tool used by IT professionals to efficiently manage IT resources and are globally applied to IT service delivery and management. Sustainability is a recent notion that describes the need for economic, environmental and social development without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs; this applies to businesses as well as society in general. Unfortunately, IT Management Frameworks do not take sustainability into account. To the practitioner this chapter demonstrates sustainability integration which allows CIOs and IT managers to improve the sustainability of their organisation. To the researcher this chapter argues that sustainability concerns need to be provided through its integration into the mainstream of IT Management Frameworks. This is demonstrated through the high-level integration of sustainability in Six Sigma, CobiT, ITIL and PRINCE2.
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Korte, M., Lee, K., Fung, C.C. (2013). Evolving IT Management Frameworks Towards a Sustainable Future. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_21
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