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Sustainable Process Management - Status Quo and Perspectives

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Sustainability in the context of information and communication systems is often discussed using the technical term “Green IT”. However, Green IT-concepts often just address the infrastructure level of an information and communication system architecture. Acknowledging the potentially huge contribution to sustainability improvements that lies in the adequate design of processes, we discuss concepts to evaluate and compare different process designs with respect to sustainability considerations.

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Kundisch, D., Herrmann, P., Meier, C. (2010). Sustainable Process Management - Status Quo and Perspectives. In: Dangelmaier, W., Blecken, A., Delius, R., Klöpfer, S. (eds) Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Logistics. IHNS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12494-5_9

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