GREEN BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT: A RESEARCH AGENDA

• DOI: 10.3127/ajis.v16i2.597
• Publication Date: 2015-06-15T04:36:51Z
• Authors: Aditya Ghose; Konstantin Hoesch...; Lothar Hinsche; Lam-Son Le
• Keywords: Carbon Footprint

There is a global consensus on the need to reduce our collective carbon footprint.While much research attention has focused developing alternative energy sources, automotive technologies or waste disposal techniques, we often ignore fact that ability optimize (existing) operations their emissions impact fundamental this exercise.Business process management (BPM) technology, with its focus understanding, modelling and improving/optimizing business processes, key starting point.Process technology applications beyond what would traditionally describe as processes -we can also model improve manufacturing other "physical" processes.This paper describes contours of emerging landscape in green presents some early results area.104 and/or instruct organizations task.There strong interrelation between frameworks, national frameworks borrowing principles ideas from various international frameworks.Throughout refer, if not otherwise stated, guidelines provided by (Australian Government Department Climate Change 2009a), stating six house gases, whose may be expressed dioxide equivalent (CO2-e).These gases are emitted when performing variety activities, which split into three scopes.Scope one (direct) occur direct result activities performed within an organization's boundary (e.g.combustion fuel vehicles boilers).Scope two (indirect) externally brought organizational -in most cases electricity.Scope include all indirect part scope (e.g.emissions associated material, flights employees, etc.).Obligated required account for first scopes, excluding three.With worldwide growing number obligated software companies like Microsoft (2009), SAP Renison IBM Enablon Enviance ( 2009) others identified new market, providing account, report, even forecast emissions.However, there no existing approach helps assess perspective, deeper insights role tasks total revealing opportunities future carbon-aware re-engineering.We begin showing how accumulate annotations (in case emission annotations) through selected task.Thereby provide answer question: 'How emit, it have been executed up point.This trivial task single since might paths during design time do know taken instance.We then introduce framework used populate diagram annotation, executing task'.This done identifying relevant emitting entities combining Bottom Up Top-Down.In Top-Down leverage Activity Based Costing find contribution each emissions.The idea transfer ABC environmental domain was mentioned (Bras & Emblemsvag 2001) (Renison 2009).In Bottom-Up use specific information determine emissions.A solutions (SAP 2009), (IBM (Enablon (Enviance exist support managing optimizing solution so far, assessing design-time omitting significant optimization potentials area reengineering.