A sustained improvement process of the products' environmental
performances. This statement, born from quality management in companies,
also served as a model for the ISO 14001 standard dealing with sites'
environmental management systems.
A cross-organisation principle. POEMS seems to be the environmental
product policy implementation tool in the several corporate services
and processes. Marketing services, purchases, sale, research and
engineering, design projects have all a role to play in order to
improve the eco-profile of products.
A preference share : Knowledge management . POEMS also seems
a knowledge management tool for companies. Sustained improvement
within the context of a strong innovation must indeed be based on
corporate experiences capitalisation.
POEMS success factors
The implementation of a POEMS can involve changes in the
company: new marketing targets, new organisation procedures (who
is in charge of what?, when, how ?), new stakeholders, new tools.
It is thus important to determine the successes factors of
these POEMS (eg. involvement of the managers and the definition
of an product environmental policy) and the pitfall to avoid during
their implementation (e.g. co-ordination problem between 2 services
of the company).
