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Integrating Sustainability Aspects in Business Process Management

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Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2016)

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Business process management is an approach to improve business processes continuously. While factors like cost, quality and time are usually considered, sustainability considerations often fade into the background. With this study, we try to support the improvement of business processes with regard to sustainability. We present a process model that describes an approach of how to integrate sustainability aspects into business process management. We also present a catalogue to support the identification of improvement potential. We execute the process model and the catalogue using an existing business process. Finally, we present a summary and outline shortly the limitations and opportunities for future work.

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  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Selim Larsch & Stefanie Betz

  2. Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Leticia Duboc & Camilla Bomfim

  3. IC – Computer Institute, UFF – Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, RJ, 24210-346, Brazil

    Leticia Duboc

  4. EY Brazil Consulting, São Paulo, Brazil

    Andréa Magalhães Magdaleno

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    Marlon Dumas

  2. School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Marcelo Fantinato

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Larsch, S., Betz, S., Duboc, L., Magdaleno, A.M., Bomfim, C. (2017). Integrating Sustainability Aspects in Business Process Management. In: Dumas, M., Fantinato, M. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 281. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58457-7_29

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