Sustainability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is one of the main goals of today. The SAP AG phrases this task in the following way: “SAP is committed to improving its own operations to become more sustainable and to delivering customer solutions to improve sustainability on a grand scale.” (SAP AG ...

Try to reach a particular goal in an environmental management system should be associated with strategies, e.g. for environmental goals, or for environmental policies. Sustainable protection can be achieved so that public environmental departments get the possibility to have a better costs control about planning, doing ...

Discussions concerning companies’ environmental aspects gained considerable importance and challenged business in recent years. Comprehensible and authentic as well as customised corporate environmental reporting requires substantial quantities of relevant information. In order to automate corporate environmental reporting, ...

For a systematic evaluation of an organizations’ environmental performance methods for data pooling are needed so that data about services, or the production of goods can be collected and the evaluation of the associated environment is possible. This information gain is the base for improvements of the environmental ...

Environmental reporting is an essential component of an organization’s communication with its stakeholders. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML), which is platform-independent and particularly well-suited for dealing with semi-structured data, seemed to be a good basis for creating a standardized data format for environmental ...

This article propose a method of how to produce and conceive an Internet-based sustainability report. After the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) created the inalterable representation of the third output of GRI-guidelines companies begin to create sustainability reports and publish it via the world wide web. But thinking ...

Using the example of Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems (OSHMS) knowledge management methods and techniques are discussed in this paper, in order to represent and transfer usable knowledge. Based on these results user-orientated IT-solutions can be designed. Therefore OSHMS-concepts and structures are ...

Umweltberichte bilden die Kerninstrumente der betrieblichen Umweltberichterstattung. Angesichts steigender Anforderungen bzgl. Automatisierung, medialer Verfügbarkeit und Zielgruppenspezifizierung bietet der Einsatz des Internet in Verbindung mit der Auszeichnungssprache XML dabei große Gestaltungschancen und eröffnet ...

Goal-setting is one of the most important task managers have to deal with. Several widespread management concepts, like the Balanced Scorecard, use strategic goals. But not in every organization goals are defined in a way, that they can be applied in everyday business to control actions. There are different reasons (e.g. ...