Developing a Maturity Assessment Model for IT-Supported Energy Management
Maturity assessment modelling is a recognised instrument in both academic and business domains which has recently become the focus of discussion in connection with sustainable information and communication technology. At the same time, the acceptance of C
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Abstract Maturity assessment modelling is a recognised instrument in both academic and business domains which has recently become the focus of discussion in connection with sustainable information and communication technology. At the same time, the acceptance of Corporate Environmental Information Systems (CEMIS) in the corporate world remains modest, and CEMIS continue to be confronted with various problems. Against this background, a maturity assessment model for IT-supported environmental management will be developed with the aim of incentivising companies to deploy CEMIS and thus increase its usage in the corporate domain. The long-term goal is to fundamentally shift the status of environmental management so that it is no longer viewed as being passive, nonintegrated and often costly, but rather as being a strategic instrument whose potential can be systematically exploited with the help of a maturity assessment model. The development of maturity assessment models will first be illustrated with the help of a process model. As the development of a maturity assessment model for environmental management in general represents an extremely comprehensive undertaking, application of the model developed here will be explored in the limited context of energy management and planned implementation within a corporate network.
C. Manthey (&) IMBC GmbH, Chausseestr. 84, 10115 Berlin, Germany e-mail: [email protected] T. Pietsch SG Wirtschaftsinformatik HTW Berlin, Treskowallee 8, 10318 Berlin, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
B. Funk et al. (eds.), Information Technology in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36011-4_9, Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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1 Introduction 1.1 Current Challenges for CEMIS It is sometimes claimed that the past successes of Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) are fairly modest, and that the potential of combining ecological and economic success has yet to be fully realised in the corporate domain [1]. An important reason for the lack of implementation might be that reliable studies into the costs and benefits of such systems have not yet been undertaken [2]. This continues to rule out a broad acceptance of CEMIS in corporate practice [3]. As noted in Junker [4], the question of a holistic approach, i.e. the integration of societal factors, also deserves more attention. It has also been stated that a theoretical and conceptual basis for sustainability in information management is still missing, and that most scenarios still lack clear strategies and management concepts from which corresponding sustainability management for the entire IT value chain can be derived ([5], V). Speaking more specifically in terms of CEMIS, others maintain that these have up until now been developed with remarkably little interest for strategic level corporate activity [6]. The keyword ‘‘integration’’ should therefore also be understood in terms of embedding environmental info
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