Where do you fit on this bell curve?

 

This is a personality thing.

Are you an early adopter? Are you a skeptic?

What is your level of tolerance for glitches?

What is your level of need/pain now?

If you like new technology and don’t mind glitches, you are an “early adopter” or “early majority”.

If you would rather someone else debug new technology, you are in the “majority” or “late majority”.
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Do when “the time is right”  

When should you adopt costly technology?

When is the time right to spend real money on green initiatives?

The time is right when:

  1. You have a real business need, and

  2. A similar “less-green” cost can be avoided by making a “green” purchase.
Example:

Consolidating servers through virtualization:

Replacing 5 healthy functioning servers with one virtualized server just to save electricity and reduce your carbon footprint doesn’t make good business sense.

However, when your 5 existing servers need to be replaced anyway, the same decision makes great business sense. You must spend money: The question is whether to spend it on one consolidated server or 5 replacement servers. This is what “opportunistic buying” means. This is when “the time is right”.
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