An Adaptable Decision Making Model for Sustainable Enterprise Interoperability

Σακάς, Δαμιανός Π.; Kutsikos, Konstadinos

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.087

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“…The framework comprises six Green IT components (people, strategies, technologies and systems, administrative policies, cost management and end of life) that should be considered by institutions in attaining sustainability, as these Green IT components influence the achievement of sustainability. However, the developed framework in this study is not applicable to private sector institutions, as private-based sectors are move aligned to the economic dimension of sustainability and less concerned with the societal and environmental dimensions as mentioned by Dao et al (2011), Sakas and Kutsikos (2014), Nifa et al (2016). Similarly, sustainability in private-based sectors is not mainly concerned with administrative polices and end of life practice, which may be optionally concerned.…”

Section: Cost Managementmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Anthony

Majid

Romli

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the key Green information technology (IT) components needed to be considered by government-based institutions and to develop a Green policy framework based on the identified Green IT components to facilitate government-based institutions achieve sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The Green policy framework and associated propositions are developed to facilitate government-based institutions achieve sustainability. In addition, a case study approach was adopted to verify the proposed framework based on data collected from open-ended interviews and sustainability report documents from two government-based institutions in Malaysia. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed based on content analysis using descriptive and narrative method to present the findings of Green IT components adopted in the selected case studies. Findings Findings show that sustainability considerations are increasingly being deliberated in institutions. Moreover, finding from the analyzed data also indicates that there is an increased interest towards implementation of Green IT initiatives for developing, operating and usage by practitioners and staff within government-based institutions. Research limitations/implications Findings from this study suggest that the Green policy framework components have implications to support only government-based institutions address environmental, social and economic-related issues. Practical implications The developed Green IT components serve as robust indicators or constructs to measure management of Green IT initiatives currently being implemented and thereby provide a framework for sustainability committee members to benchmark their current Green IT practice. Social implications This study provides an agenda to guide government-based institutions achieve sustainability goals. Accordingly, government-based institutions can adopt the framework’s components to evaluate their progress, hence improving their target of attaining sustainability. Besides, this research provides an approach for assessing current practices adopted in government-based institutions against the Green IT components. Originality/value The originality of this study is attributed to the fact that this study presents Green IT policy framework to be considered by government-based institutions in achieving sustainability. The framework provides an agenda to simultaneously consider all three dimensions of sustainability the people, planet and profit (social, environment and economic). Moreover, this is one of the first studies to explore Green IT practices in government-based institutions.

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Section: Cost Managementmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…involves enhancing the eco-friendliness of establishment operations (Dao et al, 2011;Sakas and Kutsikos, 2014). Government-based institutions can initiate Green IT practices to achieve sustainability; such practices can support institutions in controlling and preventing pollution (Hart, 1997;Gholami et al, 2016).…”

Section: Green Information Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Anthony

Majid

Romli

2019

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“…Resources acquisition . A service system that wants to participate (or is already participating) in a service systems network identifies the desired specifications for a needed resource (access rights, type of resource, bundling with other resources) (Sakas and Kutsikos, ).…”

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Managing Transformation within Service Systems Networks: A System Viability Approach

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Information technologies and massively increased connectivity drive service-based organizations towards collaboration-driven innovation activities. From a systems theory viewpoint, a formal structure for observing these developments is service system networks; that is, networks of resource-integrating systems that co-create value through service exchange. Given their dynamic nature, service systems networks may need to reconfigure themselves, as systems join, leave or change their role in the network, thus potentially jeopardizing the network's viability. By following a design science research methodology, our research aims to address this challenge through a novel two-dimensional model that maps a service system's options ('roles') for positioning itself within a service systems network. Roles are defined as viability-inducing states, described in terms of three sets of attributes (role elements) that correspond to critical success factors of network viability: service innovation, collaboration and resilience. Hence, a move to a new role is acceptable if and only if network viability is satisfied.

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“…In this context, Enterprise Interoperability is defined as the capability of an organization to interact and exchange information and other resources, both internally and with external partners, in order to achieve a certain business goal (Li et al, 2008). Sustainable interoperability aims at accommodating disturbances in a network of organizations, without compromising the overall network interoperability state (Agostinho et al, 2011;Goncalves et al, 2012;Kutsikos & Mentzas, 2012;Sakas & Kutsikos, 2014).…”

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Business Transformation through Service Science: The Road Ahead

Bithas

Kutsikos

Σακάς

et al. 2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Globalization, technological change, economic crisis and an increasing demand for specialization have led to new economic activities, new business models and new value propositions. As enterprises try to react to these challenges, they realize that they need to transform through collaboration with other enterprises in business networks, in order to: a) develop new value propositions, b) reduce operating costs, and c) engage in value innovation activities. In order to enable this transformation, we propose a Service Science approach to assist enterprises in developing collaborative value propositions. Our two research objectives are: a) the design of a service system framework, b) the implementation of related tools for helping enterprises to engage in collaborative activities, while controlling transformation activities. Our framework is based on resource management and takes into account resource type (operant, operand), resource state (basic, composite, interconnected) and the constraints imposed by resource owners, in order to help firms co-create value propositions. Our framework can thus help enterprises appreciate what it means to take part in a business network (what resources they have to manage and how, what an enterprise can offer in a business network). Then we connect our framework to the well-known E3-value ontology to test our framework's effectiveness and to have a graphical representation of value flows scenarios generated by our framework.

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An Adaptable Decision Making Model for Sustainable Enterprise Interoperability

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Managing Transformation within Service Systems Networks: A System Viability Approach

Business Transformation through Service Science: The Road Ahead

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