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Developing a

Maturity Assessment Model for

IT-Supported Energy

Management

Christian Manthey, Thomas Pietsch

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Manthey: Maturity Models for IT-supported energy management

Agenda

• Project ReMo Green

• Motivation

• Methodology

• Maturity Models (ITPM3)

• Outlook

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„ReMo Green“

Reference Models for Energy Efficiency

Transdisciplinary research project

Branch-specific networks of SMEs

Energy management / efficiency

Development of software solution

„Add-on“: Maturity model for IT-supprted energy

management

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You can‘t manage what you don‘t measure…

…handle your measures (data) with IT / IS!

• Energy efficiency / management software

– Monitor, control, report consumption

– Plan, execute and evaluate efficiency measures

– Benchmarking options

• Network approach

– Branch-specific

– Common processes

– Reference model + software

– …expandable

Source: own research, IMBC

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Motivation: Current challenges for CEMIS

• Lack of transfer into practice (transdisciplinarity) 2

• Lack of proactivity 1,2

• Lack of integrated solutions

– Strategic / tactical vs. operational level 2,3

– ERP Systems 1,2,3

– Sustainability 1,2,3

• Consequence:

– Lack of CEMIS Implementations 1,2

– Potential for economic-ecological improvements unexplored 1,2,4

1 (Loos et al. 2011) 2 (Junker et al. 2011)

3 (Möller & Schaltegger 2012) 4 (Teuteberg & Straußberg 2009)

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Approach:

Development of a Maturity Model

• Proactive and transdisciplinary approach

• Benefit and goal: Integration

– Different levels of decision-making

– IT-Systems (ERP? Other IS?)

– Production processes + business processes

• Focus on „Green Business Process

Management“

• Support energy management by analyzing,

assessing and improving business processes

The Role of BPM in IS-enabled Sustainability

Initiatives (Seidel & Recker 2011)

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Idea: Process Assessments +

Improvements

using Process Maturity Models

• Assessment of internal business processes

– Under investigation: IT-supported energy management)

– Standardized procedures :questionnaires, checklists

• Derive maturity levels and correspondings dimensions

– Where to start? (EM? Organization? Technological / IS?)

– What kind of improvements? (e.g. low hanging fruits?)

• Goal: economic-ecological optimization

– Less effort by improved or optimized processes (by use of

software?)

– Continous improvement process (ISO 14001 / 50001)

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(Becker et al. 2009)

Example Maturity Model: ITPM³

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Procedure Model (I): Developing Maturity

Models

(Becker et al. 2009)

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Procedure Model (II): Developing Maturity

Models

(Becker et al. 2009)

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Methodology

• Design science approach

• Literature review: re-use of existing components of other

models?

• Interviews: (energy management consultants)

• Case studies in SMEs

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Outlook / To Do

• Definition of maturity dimensions

– Functional (e.g. energy management ISO 50001)

– Organizational (operational to strategic level)

– Technical

– IS / IT-integration

• Define attributes and questionnaires

• Link to maturity levels

• Execute process model (Becker et al. 2009)

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Wrap-up

• Increasing demand for energy management in SMEs

– Lack of time and know-how

– Source of a high share of production + information

• Maturity model for IT-supported energy management

– For more transdisciplinary

– For proactive environmental management

– Combination of economic and ecological benefits

• Energy management as starting point for

„environmental management through the back door“

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References

• Becker, J., Knackstedt, R., Pöppelbuß, J (2009): Developing Maturity Models for IT

Management - A Procedure Model and its Application. Business & Information

Systems Engineering. 3/2009, p. 213-222.

• Junker, H.; Marx-Gomez, J.; Lang, C. (2010): Betriebliche

Umweltinformationssysteme. In: MKWI Tagungsband 2010, S.1045-1062

• Loos, P; Nebel, W; Marx Gómez, J; Hasan, H; Watson RT; Vom Brocke, J; Seidel, S;

Recker, J (2011): Green IT: A Matter of Business and Information Systems

Engineering? Business & Information Systems Engineering. 3/2011, p. 245-252.

• Möller, A., Schaltegger, S. (2012): Die Sustainability Balanced Scorecard als

Integrationsrahmen für BUIS, in: Tschandl, M., Posch, A.(Hrsg.) Integriertes

Umweltcontrolling. Wiesbaden, 2012. S.293-317.

• Seidel, S.; Recker, J. (2011): Green Business Process Management. In: Loos et al

(2011)

• Teuteberg, F; Straußberg, J. (2009): State of the art and future research in

Environmental management Information Systems a systematic literature review.

Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering: Proceedings of the 4th

International ICSC Symposium, Thessaloniki.

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