System Dynamics Modeling for Green IT Strategies: SAP Sustainability Development Case

Author

Su, Ying ; Al-Hakim, Latif

Author_Institution

Inf. Quality Lab., Inst. of Sci. & Tech. Inf., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

6-7 March 2010

Firstpage

504

Lastpage

507

Abstract

The paper seeks to investigate, how system dynamics modeling can be supportive for green IT management. The behavior of the green IT management under study is analyzed through a simulation model based on the principles of the system dynamics methodology. The simulation model can be helpful as an experimental tool, which can be used to evaluate Green IT strategies ("what-if" analysis) using total environmental indicators as measure of strategy effectiveness. SAP\´s sustainability development solutions further illustrate the applicability of the developed methodology, while providing additional intuitively sound insights.

Keywords

Analytical models; Australia; Environmental management; Information analysis; Information management; Measurement; Pattern analysis; Quality management; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management; green IT; information quality; performance measurement; strategic management; system dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Challenges in Environmental Science and Computer Engineering (CESCE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, China

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3972-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5924-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CESCE.2010.244

Filename

5493359