Chair of Information Management

Sustainable IT Resource Management by Nils-Holger Schmidt

Sustainable IT Resource Management
The increasing economical, ecological and social significance of information systems (IS) demands reorientation for IS management. Ever-growing energy consumption, waste streams, data amounts and performance expectations require management concepts that consider these forces.

Sustainable IT resource management is being investigated within the key activities of IS service provisioning, following the processes source, make, deliver, and return through which the value creation of IS organisation takes place. For each of the processes a continuum of appropriate measures to implement sustainable IT resource management can be assigned.
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Figure: Value chain of IS organisations and related research fields of sustainable IT resource management

We are working on this topic closely together with our partner from the Technical University of Berlin

Our research questions

  • How can the concept of sustainability be applied to ICT organizations?
  • Which are the incentives and constraints of sustainable actions?
  • Under which strategic conditions do sustainability activities lead to a competitive advantage?
  • Which concrete measures can be applied in each of the value chains processes of ICT organizations?
  • On what does a successful implementation depend on?
  • How can the success be measured?


Students
List of available topics for Bachelor and Master theses


Research collaborations


Publications


  • Creating a Taxonomy of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Stakeholders, Environment, Green IS, and Green IT: A Literature Review. Proceedings of pre-ICIS SIGGreen Workshop, Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 11(17) 2011. http://sprouts.aisnet.org/11-17. (Marrone, M., Schmidt, N.-H., Kossahl, J., Kolbe, L. M)
  • Influence of Green IT on Consumers' Buying Behaviour of Personal Computers: Implications from a Conjoint Analysis, in: European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2010, June 6-9, 2010, Pretoria, South Africa, 2010 (Schmidt, N.-H., Schmidtchen, T., Erek, K., Kolbe, L. M., Zarnekow, R.) (Download)
  • Schmidtchen, T., Schmidt, N.-H., Kolbe, L.M. & Geldermann, J., 2010. Der Einfluss von ökologischen Produkteigenschaften bei PCs auf die Kaufentscheidung. In M. Schumann, L. M. Kolbe, M. H. Breitner, & A. Frerichs, eds. Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2010. Göttingen: Univ.-Verl. Göttingen, pp. 315-326 (Download)
  • Jäger, Y., Schmidt, N.-H., Kolbe, L.M. 2010. Ergebnisse einer Umfrage zur aktuellen Situation von Green IT in Unternehmen (Download)
  • Sustainability in Information Systems – Assortment of
    Current Practices in IS Organizations, in: Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2009), August 6-9, San Francisco, USA, Association of Information Systems (AIS), 2009, (Erek, K., Schmidt, N.-H., Zarnekow, R., Kolbe, L. M.) (Download)
  • Towards a Procedural Model for Sustainable Information Systems Management, in: Sprague, R. H. (ed.), Proceedings of the 42th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2009 (HICSS-42), Big Island, Hawaii, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2009 (Schmidt, N.-H., Erek, K., Kolbe L. M., Zarnekow, R.) (Download)
  • Sustainability and Green IT in IT-Organizations, Projekt study, 2009 (in German, Schmidt, N.-H., Kolbe, L. M.) (Download)
  • Green IT - Current situation, potential measures and benefits, Sample from Polish Bank, 2009 (Schmidt, N.-H., Kolbe, L. M.) (Download)
  • Nachhaltiges Informationsmanagement. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, 2009, 51(5), 463-466. (Schmidt, N.-H., Erek, K., Kolbe L. M., Zarnekow, R.)
  • Fachbuch-Test: Einfachheit in Wirtschaftsinformatik und Controlling, in: Horváth, P., Reichmann, T. u.a. (hrsg.), Controlling - Zeitschrift für Erfolgsorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung, C.H. Beck, München, Frankfurt a.M., S. 633-634, Heft 11, November 2008 (Schmidt, N.-H., Kolbe L. M.)
  • Sustainable Information Systems Management. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 1(5), 2009, 400-402. (Schmidt, N.-H., Koray, E., Kolbe, L. M., Zarnekow, R.)
  • Nachhaltiges Informationsmanagement – Strategische Optionen und Vorgehensmodell zur Umsetzung. In S. Fischer, E. Maehle, & R. Reischuk, eds. Informatik 2009 - Im Focus das Leben: Beiträge der 39. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH, pp. 3423-3437. (Erek, K.; Schmidt, N.-H.; Zarnekow, R; Kolbe, L. M.)
  • Der Einfluss von ökologischen Produkteigenschaften bei PCs auf die Kaufentscheidung, In Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2010, February 23-25, 2010, Göttingen, Germany, 2010 (Schmidtchen, T., Schmidt N.-H., Kolbe, L. M., Geldermann, J.)



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