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- Is enterprise 'sustainability' sustainable?
- At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, Christopher Mines, senior vice president of Forrester Research, talks to attendees about the growing importance of green IT inside the enterprise. Mines discusses how large businesses are starting to invest big in green technologies. He says companies that...
- Tags: Sustainability, Enterprise, Green
- Videos 2008-06-09
- Foresite's compliance software covers your back
- If you're having trouble keeping up with all environmental laws your company needs to know about, you might want to consider investing in some compliance software from the likes of Foresite Systems. The company's develops and consults with a series of applications called the Global Environmental Management...
- Tags: Software, Sustainability, Compliance, Foresite, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)
- Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain. Now it seems the tech sector will follow the apparel industry on supplier transparency. The apparel industry tried to resist this for...
- Tags: Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Blogging, Nothing, Channel Management, Marketing, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Infor software offers insight into consumption patterns
- Enterprise software vendor Infor, out of Alpharetta, Ga., is positioning its application as a means of helping companies better organize their corporate assets with an eye to supporting corporate sustainability efforts. The company also has become a service provider through the Energy Star program. The software, called...
- Tags: Software, Sustainability, Consumption, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Asset Management, Management, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Edelman on Sustainability Reporting: Call in the PR Pros
- It's a conundrum every company faces when thinking about sustainability reporting - who reads this stuff anyway and do these reports actually assure anyone of anything? Sustainability reporting methodologies have grown up, for better or for worse, to ape financial reporting, replete with their own standards of assurance audit and...
- Tags: Sustainability, Public Relations, Standards, Financial Reporting Methodology, Edelman, Assurance Standard, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Xerox's simple list of green-tech tips: Focused on my favorite vice, paper
- You may have read a little bit yesterday about a new service from Xerox, one centered on its new Sustainability Calculator. Well, I resisted the urge to link to those items because I actually spent some time this morning with Patricia Calkins, Xerox vice president of Environment, Health and Safety,...
- Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Tech Sector Takes a Kicking in Ethics Ranking
- Quite honestly it is hard to take too, too seriously sustainability ratings such as the CRO 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2008 but they are kind of fun to pull apart none the less. Predictably these rankings generate a fair degree of false humility from the ascendant and gnashing and...
- Tags: Sustainability, Ethics, Emotion, Intel Corp., Tech Sector, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures
- PwC is to be congratulated at the very least for the aesthetics of their latest report: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies. This is a truly handsome report with pretty brown coloured text interspersed with striking images of wind turbines, sail boats, happy children, adults playing in autumn foliage and even...
- Tags: Sustainability, Technology Sector, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Industry, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- McKinsey and PwC On How Companies Think About Sustainability Management: All Hat, No Cattle
- Two separate reports show a massive disconnect on sustainability between C-level strategic intent and real world performance. In the report Confronting Corruption, PWC surveyed executives and whilst 80% reported their companies had an anti corruption management programme, only 22% were confident such programmes were effective. On climate change, the McKinsey...
- Tags: Sustainability, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Corruption, Others, Climate, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Economist Intelligence Unit on sustainability
- Economist Intelligence Unit on sustainabilityDevil's HaircutWhile some companies are actually moving forward on this issue, as the study shows, many are merely re-assembling existing community programs, giving them a new haircut, and ignoring core aspects of their business which could make an actual difference. Until this happens, "sustainability" will...
- Tags: sustainability, Economist Intelligence Unit
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- US Productivity Slip, A Threat to Sustainability?
- Bob Suh, Chief Technology Strategist at Accenture writing in yesterdays Financial Times hits the panic button on US productivity. Apparently it is starting to slip relative gains in Europe and China. The reason is an under investment in technology. I know what you are thinking, I'd be surprised too if...
- Tags: Sustainability, Accenture Ltd., Compliance, Investment, Suh, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- On+Sustainability
- On+SustainabilityWelcomeAn important thing to stress about sustainability, though, it that it's not simply a justification for pet causes on the left wing of the political spectrum, but has wide application to many different areas of personal, business, and public policy, as well as software design. I've also long found...
- Tags: sustainability
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Economist Intelligence Unit on sustainability
- The Economist Intelligence Unit this week publishes a report on the state of business and sustainability entitled: Doing Good: Business and the Sustainability Challenge. (Disclosure: SAP was amongst a number of co-sponsors of this report) The report captures nicely the zeitgeist - most businesses have accepted sustainability as a mainstream...
- Tags: Sustainability, Truth, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- On Sustainability
- The first post on ZDNET! And if that isn't scary enough I kind of need to spend some time explaining the concept of ‘sustainability', the subject matter of this blog. Nailing custard to a wall would be so much easier. Ask ten people what sustainability means and you will get...
- Tags: Sustainability, Globalization, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Photos: Gadgets go green at Greener Gadgets
- A conferences of designers and sustainability experts looks at how to make electronics more environmentally friendly. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Sustainability, Photograph, Gadget, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-02-05
- Can global businesses be truly sustainable? Green tech is just part of the answer
- One thing I miss about living in the San Francisco Bay Area is my access to random briefings on heady technology issues, like the OpenEco Energy Camp that was held Wednesday at one of Sun Microsystems' facilities. Thanks to the wonders of webcasting, I checked in for about 45 minutes...
- Tags: Sustainability, Green Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning
- Is your company "going green?" Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally-friendly.
- Tags: Sustainability, Training, SkillSoft
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Holistically (including economics and environment), Moore's Law could be failing
- I'm at a panel discussion at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA, the purpose of which is to discuss the ever-widening gap between the physical success of Moore's Law, and its failings from an economic, environmental, and sustainability point of view. The session was opened by Uptime Institute...
- Tags: Data Center, SUV, Environment, Server, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Photos: World's fair to focus on water
- Zaragoza, Spain, to host next international exposition with theme of water and sustainability.
- Tags: exposition, sustainability, Spain, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-07-30
- Short Clip: Innovation vs. sustainability
- Shelton Waggener, the CIO of the University of California at Berkeley, defines innovation as the "practical use of discovery." by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Innovation, Sustainability, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
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