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- Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
- Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...
- Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?
- IBM has come out and said it: The way a company treats environmental responsibility and green tech issues reflects on its corporate ethics. There, I've said it, too. The company's consulting division has even come out this week with the IBM Corporate Social Responsibility Benchmarking Service...
- Tags: Consulting Service, Green Technology, Ethics, IBM Corp., IBM Consulting Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Off topic: The facade of objectivity
- This Wired-TechCrunch war is interesting for the media wonks out there, but larger question is this: Does objectivity exists? Does it even matter? Here's the short version. The Washington Post inks a syndication deal with TechCrunch. Wired notes that it's odd that the Post picks up a...
- Tags: Disclosure, TechCrunch, Wired Inc., Objectivity, Blogger, Post, Personality, Blogging, Business Ethics, Construction, Internet, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues
- The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- We're number 43!
- The late, great Douglas Adams once wrote that the secret to the universe is 42, so we're pretty close. But 43 in this case is our ranking in Laura Milligan's list of "The Top 100 Academic Medical Blogs." Looking over the list, it seems...
- Tags: Fish, Business Ethics, Productivity, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Development Tools, Handhelds, Leadership, Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt
- An application dubbed G-Archiver backs up your Gmail account to a hard drive with a not-so-nice twist: It swipes your user name and password. Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines a chilling tale as told by Dustin Brooks, one of his readers. I was looking for...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Password, E-mail, Business Ethics, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Time to out drug test reviewers?
- Pfizer is suing the New England Journal of Medicine, aiming to learn the names of anonymous reviewers who conducted peer reviews on its pain relief drug Celebrex. Donald Kennedy, outgoing editor of Science Magazine right, says this is a direct threat to all science. Anonymity...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Fact, Anonymity, Reviewers, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Sleazy analysts and corporate weasels
- IT buyers look to industry analysts for wisdom in understanding the past, counsel in handling the present, and advice when future plans go awry. Unfortunately, this symbiotic relationship between analysts and their corporate masters can include a complicated mix of mutual respect and fear, punctuated by...
- Tags: Analyst, Blog, Business Ethics, Blogging, Leadership, Management, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-09
- Lawson on Corporate Social Responsibility:Thou Shalt Obey The Law
- My, my! Industry Corporate Social Responsibility CSR white papers are becoming like buses - nothing for ages then all of a sudden three in a row. First the Economist Intelligence Unit supported by SAP, then IBM and now Lawson enters the fray with the oddly titled The Convergence of Corporate...
- Tags: Compliance, Lawson Software Inc., Industry Corporate Social Responsibility White Paper, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- IBM on Corporate Social Responsibility: Collaboration, Integration and NGO Foot Soldiers
- Corporate responsibility at IBM is a class act so high expectations then when the IBM Institute for Business Value this week came out with a piece on CSR: Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility. Dazzling stuff but one or two clangers as well. IBM...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Collaboration, Revolution, Business, IBM Corp., Integration, NGO, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- Is it a news story or is it a press release?
- Google news, Yahoo news, and other news aggregators, sometimes pick up press releases and distribute them alongside news stories produced by journalists. Some PR people have noticed this flaw in the news aggregators and are quite happy to exploit it. They brag that their press releases can...
- Tags: Press Release, News Story, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Talent as a disability
- Today's post is late due to a personal crisis. (The Vatican's bust of Janus is from Wikipedia.) It's caused by a genetic condition called ADHD/ADD. I have it, and always have. I survived school by the skin of my teeth, I was in constant trouble at college,...
- Tags: George W. Bush, Talent, Diagnosis, Disability, Policy Question, E-health, Wiki, Business Ethics, Internet, Healthcare, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- News to know: Office Live Workspace; Leopard; Web 2.0 Summit; Digital media ethics
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Get a sneak peek of Microsoft's Office Live Workspace service. Gallery right. Ryan Stewart: Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's services. Ryan Naraine: Memory randomization ALSR coming to Mac OS X Leopard. Dan Farber @ Web...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Digital Media, Microsoft Office Live, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Ethics, Business Ethics, Web 2.0, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Management, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Want to know what over 7,500 ZDNet readers think about copying digital media?
- Then get on over to Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, where his poll on digital media ethics has garnered an overwhelming, and highly educational, response. by Denise Howell
- Tags: Ethics, Business Ethics, Digital Media, Leadership, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- News to know: Digital media ethics; Adobe flaw; AT&T; Gamemaster interview
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Where do you stand on digital media ethics? Ed Burnette: Interview with a Game Master. IBM, 'Second Life' open borders for virtual worlds. Ryan Naraine: Adobe warns of critical PageMaker, Illustrator flaws Russell Shaw:...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Digital Media, Gartner Inc., AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ethics, Flaw, Business Ethics, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Leadership, Management, Web Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?
- This came in a press release today from Arizona State University. Biomedical informatics is seen as critical to advancing "customized" medicine, in which care is tailored to specific health profiles of individual patients. It is also emerging as an essential tool in federal and state government...
- Tags: Electronic Health Record, Biomedical, Health Care, Biomedical Informatic, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Business Ethics, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Environmental Sustainability and Microsoft Dynamics
- Financial results are no longer the only defining measure of a company's strength. Increasing importance is being placed on each company's approach to Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") and Environmental Sustainability in particular. What is the "Convenient truth"? It is seen as the untapped potential of the information that currently resides...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Sustainability, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Corporate Law, Leadership, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-11-03
- Best Practices for Application Service Management in Law Firms: Compuware Vantage Solution
- Lawyers are known for their hard-working business ethics and their long hours put in at the office - and now, thanks to technology, outside the office. Because so much of a lawyer's work involves technology today, it is imperative that the technology be available and working correctly when a lawyer...
- Tags: Service Management, Lawyer, Compuware Corp., Best Practice, Upside Research, Litigation, Business Ethics, Business Operations, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2006-08-04
- Respect Your Elders: Don't Fall Victim to Intergenerational Conflict
- Ever get into a conflict with another rep over seemingly trivial issues? Ever cause a customer to become upset without quite understanding why? If so, there may be intergenerational issues at work in the customer service center. Different generations come equipped with different interpersonal attitudes, value systems, and work ethics,...
- Tags: Generation, Business Ethics, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Leadership, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- The Tone at the Top and Ethical Conduct Connection
- The study discussed in this paper suggests that corporations whose top managers value ethics are less likely to pressure employees to materially alter financial results. Tone at the top plays a critical role in the control environment. And corporations whose top managers value ethics are also somewhat more likely to...
- Tags: Ethics, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2005-03-01
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