Mobile Enterprises: Sustainability and the Environment ◾ 303
Operative mobile use provides opportunities for the organization to model
and optimize its internal processes to produce environmentally friendly results.
Examples of such initiatives include the management of people to reduce their
unnecessary movement, virtualization of teams to enable dispersed team members
to get together without travel, and internal inventory management processes that
reduce the burden on the environment, as well as reporting and optimization of
these internal processes. Mobile telecommuting is a serious consideration for opera-
tive use by business, wherein workers need not be physically present at the premises
of the company. Employees will h ...