Green Business Process Management

Stefan Seidel (), Jan Recker () and Jan Brocke ()
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Stefan Seidel: University of Liechtenstein
Jan Recker: Queensland University of Technology
Jan Brocke: University of Liechtenstein

A chapter in Green Business Process Management, 2012, pp 3-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In managing their operations, organizations have traditionally focused on economic imperatives in terms of time, cost, efficiency, and quality. In doing so, they have been a major contributor to environmental degradation caused by resource consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage. As a consequence, organizations are increasingly encouraged to improve their operations also from an ecological perspective, and thus to consider environmental sustainability as an additional management imperative. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, which we call the challenge of Green Business Process Management (Green BPM). This chapter elaborates on the challenge and perspective of Green BPM, and explores the contributions that business process management can provide to creating environmentally sustainable organizations. Our key premise is that business as well as information technology managers need to engage in a process-focused discussion to enable a common, comprehensive understanding of organizational processes, and the process-centered opportunities for making these processes, and ultimately the organization as a process-centric entity, “green.” Through our review of the key BPM capability areas and how they can be framed in terms of environmental sustainability considerations, we provide an overview and introduction to the subsequent chapters in this book.

Keywords: Green Business Process Management; Central Processing Entity; Capability Areas; Environmental Sustainability Considerations; Renewable Energy Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27488-6_1

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