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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

Instrumenting social responsibility

As I'm sitting in an Orlando hotel idly flicking through RSS, I come across this guest post by Stacey Monk on Go Big Always. To cut a long story short: After all, I'm the perhaps crazy person who, after a trip to Africa last year, left a really successful...

Tags: SAP AG, Stacey Monk, EpicChange, Web 2.0, Corporate Social Responsibility, Internet, Leadership, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-02

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

Creating a green IT action plan

Tapping into the green meme, Forrester analyst Christopher Mines has developed an action plan for CIOs for implementing green IT principles. According to Mines's report ($379 US) , green mandates are funded by multiple motives--saving money (reduce energy spend, improve IT equipment utilization, benefit from tax breaks), enhancing public perception...

Tags: Green Technology, Green IT, Action Plan, Corporate Social Responsibility, Taxes, Free Trade, Leadership, Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-22

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

Computacenter Services and PCs With Intel vPro Technology

With an established focus on technology innovation and corporate social responsibility, Caja Madrid introduced the 'Zero Paper Project' to realise its vision of implementing a digital office environment. Recognising the potential productivity and cost benefits of re-engineering manual processes with an electronic paperless solution, the project was designed to drive...

Tags: Intel vPro, PC, Environment, Computacenter, Intel Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Tablets, Leadership, Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

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Google + Digg = ?

There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ insert company here. The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside Google", says that Google will buy Digg for $200M. This is similar to a rumor in March that Digg was...

Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...

Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Gallery: New user interface for Xbox 360

At the E3 game conference Microsoft unveiled a new look for it's Xbox 360 interface to make features easier to use and buy, and improve the social experience. by Andy Smith

Tags: Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andy Smith, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox

Image galleries 2008-07-24

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Facebook gets serious about app quality

Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Live Webcast: Mid-Year Report: Malware, Spam and Web Threats in 2008

What's NOT happening in 2008? The web continues to be a vector for cyber threats. Incidents of spear-phishing continue to dupe users, and botnets are increasing in popularity amongst growing economies across the globe. Complex polymorphic viruses as opposed to the more mundane Trojan horses are getting...

Tags: Web, Webcast, Sophos Plc., Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Channel Management, Security, Marketing

Webcasts 2008-07-24

Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog

Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...

Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game

Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...

Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-23

iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws

Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Spamming, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Phishing, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...

Tags: Job, Intuit Inc., Unemployment, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-23

How sick is Steve Jobs?

Apple Inc.'s stonewalling over this material corporate event says something very bad about the company. It says they're totally dependent on Jobs, that no one can tell him no on anything, and that when you buy the stock you're buying a man. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Steve Jobs, Cancer, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Enterprise communities: build or join?

Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps enterprises must take while evaluating their community engagement strategies. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Facebook, Community, Network, Social Media, Customer, Site, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-23