Approaching Green BPM characterisation

Abstract

Sustainable development is a type of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability has recently become more and more important for businesses. This has led to what is known as Green BPM (Green business process management), in which sustainability is considered to be a business objective. The objective of this work was to carry out a systematic literature review in order to evaluate how the subject of Green BPM has evolved and how the term “Green BPM” has been conceptualised so as to propose a new definition compiled from those previously formulated; identify the impact of the incorporation of Green aspects into the BPM life cycle stages; and discover the impact of Green BPM research efforts by means of the PDCA (plan‐do‐check‐act) model, thus identifying (1) the goals that have been proposed when Green initiatives are carried out in BPM, (2) the context in which this has been applied, and (3) the performance indicators considered. Finally, we propose a new characteristic, Process Greenability, together with its subcharacteristics, in addition to identifying the relationship between these subcharacteristics and the indicators identified to make them measurable.

An empirical study on Green BPM adoption: Contextual factors and performance

“…Currently, the tendency is that these three traditions are merging into a more comprehensive BPM approach 44 . Evidence exists that this also holds for Green BPM 5–7,20,45 . To identify contextual factors that may affect Green BPM adoption, we searched for studies in these underlying process traditions.…”

“…Researchers increasingly advocate to extend the scope of conventional BPM 3 with an environmental sustainability dimension 4 . This Green BPM approach calls for more research on the ecological impact of business processes 5–7 …”

Koncepcja Green BPM – istota, przesłanki, wyzwania związane z wprowadzaniem

“…Tabela 2 prezentuje elementy BPM z perspektywy Green BPM. Uwagę na etapowość i rozłożone w czasie wprowadzanie przedstawianej koncepcji zwracają Gonzales i współautorzy 16 . Ich zdaniem może ono odbywać się zgodnie z cyklem PDCA w powiązaniu z działaniami zarządczymi.…”

A framework for addressing the challenges of business process change during enterprise systems integration

“…Also, BPM as an umbrella including several tools and techniques for addressing many BPC challenges helps monitoring of the BPC projects. Monitoring, as an important stage in all BPM lifecycles, is conducted by enhancing controllability of business processes during the change through the integration of human activities with BPM (Liu et al, 2008;Hull and Motahari Nezhad, 2016;Hernández González et al, 2019). Dufresne and Martin (2003) also suggested BPMo as a framework for controlling and measuring of business processes to assist optimisation of the business processes for the change.…”