By Ramdas S
RS Shanbhag, Managing Director of Bengaluru-based ValuePoint Group is a man on a mission. Driving an aggressive green agenda, Shanbhag has embarked on an initiative to convince his company’s customers and his solutions provider peers to move from CRT monitors to LCDs.
“Over the next few months, we are planning to buyback around 10,000 CRT monitors from our
customers. We will be billing the monitors virtually at the transaction cost, and our margins will be made from the recycled CRT monitor parts” said Shanbhag.
Highlighting the costs savings LCD monitors can bring, he said, “On an average, every LCD monitor can save roughly Rs 9,000 by reducing power consumption, real estate and bringing down the cooling and UPS costs. Further, it’s been proved that LCD monitors improve efficiency and productivity by eight percent.”
ValuePoint has also tied up with a third party financier to fund buybacks.
But Shanbhag is not stopping here. He is planning to talk to his peers and sell them the idea. “If you replace 10,000 CRT monitors, you have energy savings similar to greening 100 data centers.”
He further added, “As a first step, I plan to discuss this idea with 25 other top HP partners in the country at the HP partner meet in Osaka. I will urge them to implement such an initiative at their end.”
Shanbhag hopes that he will be able to convince as many partners as possible. “It’s a great way to engage with your customers and do some good for the society and environment,” he concluded. |