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- Are Enterprise Content Management failures destroying the American system of justice?
- [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="photo: plu.edu"][/caption] As if dying trees and disgruntled employees aren’t bad enough consequences of poor enterprise content management systems, according to Michael Hickins, lousy Enterprise Content Management ECM could be chipping away at the very heart of American justice. This talk of justice...
- Tags: Enterprise Content Management, Michael Hickins, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Doc
- Sponsored content 2009-07-27
- Death of the Principle of Voluntarism?
- Much of the corporate sustainability and responsibility agenda has been propelled since the '90s by the idea that voluntary action on the part of corporations is more effective than regulation. It has been a celebration of market dynamism over moribund regulation, the latter of which would provide only for the lowest common denominator. At...
- Tags: Initiative, Diamond, Kimberly Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?
- The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...
- Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-24
- US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains
- Following on from yesterday's riff on traceability technology for Vietnamese fisheries, it turns out Silicon Valley may yet be its own best customer. Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, James Farrar, Mineral, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), U.S. Congress
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- AT&T's First (well not quite first) Chief Sustainability Officer
- The AT&T PR luvvies pushed out a tweet today announcing they had freshly minted their first Chief Sustainability Officer CSO. I took a closer look and it turns out the newly appointed Charlene Lake has been in situ since last year albeit with the slightly more modest title of VP Public Affairs Corporate Citizenship and...
- Tags: Sustainability, AT&T Corp., James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- HP on track to recycle 2 billion pounds of tech stuff. What percentage of the total is that?
- Taken individually, Hewlett-Packard has reported some pretty impressive milestones in green corporate citizenship over the past year. You might classify its efforts as a dark emerald shade of commitment, as opposed to a less vivid color like lime. Among HP's achievements, I have been particularly impressed by...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Leadership, Printers, Strategy, Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Fujitsu's Sustainable Business Heritage
- Fujitsu works at sustainable business management. Through lasting economic, environmental and social contributions it will fulfill corporate citizenship responsibilities and help to make a better world. For Fujitsu, sustainable business management means that through activities, products and services it will contribute to a better society, now and into the future.
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2009-03-23
- What is American?
- What is American?hear hearI agree wholeheartedly, JohnCompletely agree! Great post.I completely agree with your post, John. I hate it when people try to impose what being an American means. Being American means being someone who is willing to learn and word hard to achieve his dreams, not someone who thinks...
- Tags: H-1B program, H-1B
- Discussion threads 2009-01-30
- How much governing power do online supporters give Obama?
- How much governing power do online supporters give Obama?He'll figure it out...The first time Obama wants constituents to push Congressional support for a bill he and we are going to find just how effective his online support is.Depends on his continuing popularityRonald Reagan was able to go over the heads...
- Tags: Obama, online supporter
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and XeroxCisco CSR Report Now OnlineCisco's 2008 Corporate citizenship report is now online: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/2008_cisco_corporate_social_responsibility_now_online/you can also view a video of CEO John Chambers discussing CSR's importance with Economist reporter Matthew Bishop.
- Tags: CSR, Xerox Corp., Toshiba Corp., SAP AG, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
- Some scintillating corporate sustainability reading for your perusal today, folks. In all seriousness, the last few weeks have seen several of the biggest of the big high-tech vendors publish their latest environmental reports or corporate responsibility statements. Here’s a list of some of the most recent, along with a brief...
- Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Card, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gas, SAP AG, Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Corporate Citizenship: Profiting From a Sustainable Business
- Corporate citizenship is becoming increasingly important to business sustainability. It provides benefits that are both tangible - such as reducing waste and increasing energy efficiency - and intangible - such as improved employee productivity. This report is based on the hypothesis that corporate citizenship can help to improve the bottom...
- Tags: Economist, Benefits, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-11-01
- HP takes leadership stand on emissions reporting across supply chain
- Talk about full (well, almost-full) disclosure: As it promised in its 2007 Global Corporate Citizenship Report, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is reporting carbon emissions data not just for its own operations for those of its largest suppliers. The data represents about 80 percent of the company's "first-tier manufacturing expenditures." (Whatever...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- 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
- America's blocked labor policies
- America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...
- Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- RSA: Microsoft launches trusted Internet initiative; Aims for security dialogue
- Microsoft said Tuesday at the RSA security conference that it is launching a trustworthy Internet initiative much like its Trustworthy Computing plan launched in 2002. And like Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative it all started with a whitepaper. That fact is what makes Microsoft's strategy and research chief's...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Microsoft Corp., Trustworthy Computing, Craig Mundie, Internet, Security, Viruses And Worms, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- 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
- Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearing
- Comcast paid people to take up seats at FCC hearingAll the more reason comcast deserves a fine..NOW they are trying to skew the public meetings setup...that is BEYOND low...as Mr. OU has quoted me being out for COMCAST blood...well i'm even more so now. This is the type of corporate...
- Tags: Federal government, Comcast Corp., FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- 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
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