Green Business Process Management: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise

✍ Scribed by Stefan Seidel, Jan Recker, Jan vom Brocke (auth.), Jan vom Brocke, Stefan Seidel, Jan Recker (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

​ Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of our society, have always been a major contributor to the degradation of our natural environment, through the resource consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage production associated with their business processes. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable business processes. Finding solutions to this organizational design problem is the key challenge of Green Business Process Management. This book- discusses the emerging challenges of designing “green” business processes,- presents tools and methods that organizations can use in order to design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, and- provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices. The book is of relevance to both practitioners and academics who are interested in understanding, designing, and implementing “green” business processes. It also constitutes a valuable resource for students and lecturers in the fields of information systems, management, and sustainable development.

Preface by Richard T. Watson

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Green Business Process Management....Pages 3-13
Unpacking Green IS: A Review of the Existing Literature and Directions for the Future....Pages 15-37
Unordered Business Processes, Sustainability and Green IS....Pages 39-58
Information Systems in Environmental Sustainability: Of Cannibals and Forks....Pages 59-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Advancing Business Process Technology for Humanity: Opportunities and Challenges of Green BPM for Sustainable Business Activities....Pages 75-92
Modeling and Analyzing the Carbon Footprint of Business Processes....Pages 93-109
Managing Process Performance to Enable Corporate Sustainability: A Capability Maturity Model....Pages 111-129
Measurement Systems for Sustainability....Pages 131-146
Energy Informatics: Initial Thoughts on Data and Process Management....Pages 147-159
Change the Game: Sustainability in Projects and Project Management....Pages 161-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
The Potential of a Network-Centric Solution for Sustainability in Business Processes....Pages 181-201
Understanding the Maturity of Sustainable ICT....Pages 203-216
Ecosia.org: The Business Case of a Green Search Engine....Pages 217-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-251

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Organization/Planning; Environmental Management; Information Systems and Communication Service