Curry, Edward and Donnellan, Brian (2012) Understanding the Maturity of Sustainable ICT. In: Green Business Process Management. Springer, pp. 203-216. ISBN 9783642274879
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Abstract
Sustainable ICT (SICT) can develop solutions that offer benefits
both internally in IT and across the extended enterprise. However, because the
field is new and evolving, few guidelines and best practices are available. There is
a need to improve the SICT behaviours, practices and processes within organizations
to deliver greater value from SICT. To address the issue, a consortium of
leading organizations from industry, the nonprofits sector, and academia decided
to develop a framework for systematically assessing and improving SICT capabilities.
The SICT Capability Maturity Framework (SICT-CMF) gives organizations a
vital tool to manage their sustainability capability. The framework provides a
comprehensive value-based model for organizing, evaluating, planning, and managing
SICT capabilities. Using the framework, organizations can assess the maturity
of their SICT capability and systematically improve capabilities in a measurable
way to meet the sustainability objectives including reducing environmental
impacts and increasing profitability. The core of SICT-CMF is a maturity model
for SICT which provides a management system with associated improvement
roadmaps that guide senior IT and business management in selecting strategies to
continuously improve, develop, and manage the sustainable IT capability.
This chapter describes the SICT-CMF and the use of it to determine the maturity
of sustainable IT capability within a number of leading organisations. The
chapter highlights the challenges in managing SICT and motivates the benefit of
maturity models. The development process for the SICT-CMF is discussed and the
role of Design Science in the development cycle is explored. The application of
the resulting model and its use to measure SICT maturity is discussed together
with an analysis of the average results for organisations using the model. The
chapter concludes with practical insights gained from the assessments.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | This is the postprint version of the published chapter, which is available at Curry E., Donnellan B. (2012) Understanding the Maturity of Sustainable ICT. In: vom Brocke J., Seidel S., Recker J. (eds) Green Business Process Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg |
Keywords: | Nonprofit Sector; Corporate Sustainability; Maturity Curve; Sustainability Strategy; Design Science Research; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Innovation Value Institute, IVI Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
Item ID: | 10851 |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-642-27488-6_12 |
Depositing User: | Prof. Brian Donnellan |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2019 17:15 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/10851 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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