Greening ITIL: Expanding the ITIL Lifecycle for Green IT

An important strategic decision for CIOs is to contribute to the overall long term sustainability of the organization and building the capacity and capability to preempt the information technology (IT) roadmap of the industry and come up with an IT roadmap for the organization to keep it in front of the competition. With the current industry trends, IT organizations need to make environmental sustainability (or "Green") a part of their strategy. This would mean that an extension of the industry frameworks to suggest the best green practices is also imperative. Our work in this paper is just one set of suggestions among many to come in the future. It addresses proposed extensions to the ITIL framework to address green IT in the full ITIL lifecycle.