Green Business Process Management

Engaging with the emerging challenges of enacting business processes that are environmentally sustainable, this book offers ready-to-use techniques in addition to valuable insights learned through experience by businesses that have become 'greener'.

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 whereorganizations 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

Preface by Richard T. Watson 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 Provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Preface by Richard T. Watson.- Foreword.- Part I: Foundationss and Directions.- Part II: Tools and Methods.- Part III: Cases and Examples.