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How Business Process Management can Improve your Business ESG Initiatives
- June 14, 2022
- Peter Shields
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Have you ever pondered the intersection of Business Process Management (BPM) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives?
If not, it’s high time to give it a thought. BPM, a systematic approach to make business processes more efficient, and ESG initiatives, the pillars of sustainable business, can work together to create a more resilient and responsible company.
Intrigued? Let’s delve deeper.
Understanding Business Process Management
BPM is like the conductor of an orchestra, ensuring all parts of the business work in harmony. It’s all about designing, implementing, monitoring, and enhancing business processes to make them as efficient as possible.
Remember, an inefficient process is like a leaky tap, steadily draining your resources.
What are ESG Initiatives?
When we talk about ESG initiatives, we’re referring to a business’s approach to managing its environmental, social, and governance obligations. Think of it as a company’s blueprint for being a good global citizen.
Environmental Considerations
This encompasses how a business interacts with the natural environment. Are you minimising your carbon footprint? Are your processes sustainable? These are the questions at the heart of the ‘E’ in ESG.
Social Factors
This refers to how a business impacts its people and the broader community. It’s all about maintaining healthy relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, and even society as a whole.
Governance Factors
Lastly, governance relates to the way a company is run. It covers everything from board structure to employee rights, and it’s all about ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability.
The Connection between Business Process Management and ESG Initiatives
At this point, you’re thinking, “yes, I understand what ESG means… but how does BPM align people with these initiatives?”
The answer lies in efficiency.
Efficient business processes translate into more resourceful operations, better decision-making, effective risk management, and enhanced stakeholder engagement — all vital for effective ESG initiatives.
How Business Process Management Improves ESG Initiatives
Building or improving processes for ESG initiatives is a major challenge. Your business needs to build a foundation that allows it to respond to changing business needs and market conditions.
With the advent of digital transformation, many companies use BPM to improve their existing processes. But how can BPM help with ESG initiatives? Here are some ways:
ESG Reporting and Assurance
BPM provides a structured way to collect, store, and analyse data. Businesses use it in their ESG reporting process to ensure that the data is consistent and reliable.
Environmental Management
BPM helps you manage environmental compliance. This includes tracking regulatory changes and maintaining records of compliance activities.
Risk Management
BPM lets you automate risk management processes so that you get alerts when anything goes wrong with your operations. This ensures that problems don’t escalate into major incidents, or put people at risk.
Compliance Audits
BPM also helps you conduct compliance audits by providing information about what needs checking and how often it should be checked — which means less time spent on paperwork and more time spent making sure that things are running smoothly in your organisation.
Note: If you’d like to learn about our BPM software and how it can apply to your business, our business analysts can explain everything we do and give you a personalised demo of our software.
Implementing Business Process Management for ESG Initiatives
Start with a Strategy
First, establish clear ESG goals and align them with your overall business strategy. This is your roadmap to becoming a sustainable business.
Choose the Right Tools
Next, select BPM tools that will help you achieve these goals. These are your vehicles for the journey.
Continual Monitoring and Improvement
Finally, continuously monitor your processes and make improvements where necessary. This is your maintenance along the way.
The Next Steps
In essence, Business Process Management and ESG initiatives are like two sides of the same coin. BPM provides the framework to operate efficiently and responsibly, while ESG initiatives offer the direction towards sustainability.
Our experienced business analysts can help you identify key processes and documents to be integrated into a business process management system bespoke to your organisation’s needs. Request a demo now and we’ll be in touch to discuss how we can support you.
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Peter Shields
Peter is a Quality, Risk & Compliance expert with extensive experience working with process-based management systems in the Energy, Nuclear & Defence sectors since 1979.
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