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Intel to Ireland: Vote Yes to Europe or else?

Irish politics is a sport not for the faint hearted. As Conor Cruise O'Brien once said: Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being...

Tags: Ireland, Intel Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Investment, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Quick factoid about IBM's asset recovery services

I've been reading IBM's latest corporate social responsibility report this week in my "spare time." Just wanted to share this fact related to the company's Global Asset Recovery Services, which handles the takeback of commercial products in 57 different countries. In 2008, IBM processed an estimated 42,302...

Tags: Pound, Asset, IBM Corp., Corporate Social Responsibility, Asset Management, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-09

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

Reduce Your Paper Trail to Improve Efficiency, Aid Compliance - And Do Your Bit for the Planet

Organizations today are often overburdened with an ever increasing amount of paper - and the legacy processes that both rely on and generate it. But a paper-based system is not only hard to organize and maintain, it's also difficult and time-consuming to search. Streamlining and improving document management is crucial...

Tags: Paper Trail, Compliance, Full-text Search, ViewWise, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Corporate Social Responsibility, Data Management, Document Management, Leadership, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2009-06-12

Sun provides mid-year green report card. How do you think it's doing?

Another quick update: Sun Microsystems has again set a great example for the other high-tech vendors by posting a mid-year update to its corporate social responsibility and sustainability goals. I like to think of this as their "call of shame:" you can see for yourself that setting goals is one...

Tags: Card, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Goal, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Corporate Social Responsibility, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Sun says it's doing well on corporate social responsibility

Sun Microsystems released its CSR report late Monday. It seems to be doing well, but it is difficult to assess such claims. I imagine that it will be tougher to make progress by Sun and other IT companies once the low hanging fruit is harvested. Here are...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Green tech reward program: Intel will recognize innovation that aids environmental cause

I've had the pleasure of interviewing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett three times in my varied career, so I can say with authority that he is passionate about the environment. And about education. Then again, this is not surprising from technologist who also happens to be a Montana ranch owner. ...

Tags: Innovation, Green Technology, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Registration Deadline, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-26

IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more

So far, the main green tech consulting offerings have emerged from the biggest of the big systems vendors and this latest service I'm referencing today out of IBM is no different. The new IBM Green Sigma offering, for those companies that do the Lean Sigma thing, focuses...

Tags: Green Technology, Carbon, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-18

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

Using Expert Networks to Help Fight Disease

Off late GBC merged with Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS TPAA, an organization with a strong presence in Russia and Ukraine. While both GBC and TPAA have extensive experience in numerous countries, they struggled to understand how to effectively position corporate social responsibility services to Ukrainian companies. GBC needed to learn...

Tags: Network, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-06-01

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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Additional Resources

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in 2010

Recovery is already starting up...Around us, I've noticed construction is starting back up, which means jobs are starting to appear again, which means people won't be losing their homes, which means our local economy is restarting after the craziness. It's about time!RE: Intel's Otellini: Strong second half; recovery coming in...

Tags: Intel Corp., Otellini, patent, recovery

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Upcoming energy efficiency research from Pew will provide corporate benchmarks

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is preparing a report on corporate energy efficiency, to be released in March 2010. Turns out Toyota is the big sponsor of this project, putting up a $1.4 million grant over three years. The data was SUPPOSED to be based...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-12