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Kenneth Cole's Tone-Deaf Tweet! Vodafone's Coerced Texts! Salad Dressing Drug Charges! Business Misadventures in Egypt Multiply

As a revolution unfolds, the forwardly fashionable, mobile operators, and even a purveyor of health foods have been caught up in Egypt's current chaos.READ»

ASEAN   |  Comment

Southeast Asian Nations Reveal ICT Masterplan, China Is of Little Help

While the ASEAN group of nations meet this week to hash out a grand ICT vision for Southeast Asia, neighboring China, a so-called leader in the region, struggles with its own ICT infrastructure.READ»

Lifeplayer, the MP3 Radio for the World's Most Forgotten

An alternative to school and formal education, the Lifeplayer could democratize education in Africa.READ»

Who decides what is acceptable?

A few days ago an employee within Citi cut off the internet business account of a customer, Fabulis. The Citi employee determined Fabulis breached Citi rules for what internet business accounts Citi is prepared to support. ...READ»

Sustainability is Overrated

Originally posted to CSR PerspectiveWell, perhaps I really mean overemphasized rather than overrated. As I said in my ‘Themes for 2010” post, I have some thoughts on terminology. I hear the term sustainability used as a catch ...READ»

A New Year’s Wish for the Coming Decade

With some wishful thinking, aided by a glass of champagne to bring in the new year, I envisaged this press article from later in the decade . . .PWF Inc, the global conglomerate, today announced Donahugh, currently president of a ...READ»

NAKED MEN   |  Comment

Naked Men in Locker Rooms and Why I Think SMART Objectives Can Undermine Sustainable Behavior

 SMART Objectives are a popular management tool in business and have been for some time now. If you are not familiar with the concept, SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timebound. ...READ»

IT Going Green – a Comparison of Corporate and Personal Attitudes and Actions

  This is my second post on the results of a survey of the views of IT professionals on Green IT that BT conducted in June 2009. I see a strong indication from our survey respondents that companies that take a ...READ»

GE   |  Comment

The role of Metrics and ROI in Corporate Responsibility

“Metrics, metrics and more metrics. In many ways metrics drive the success of business. Multiple variables can be condensed to the common denominator of dollars and cents, pounds and pence. Many business failures could have been ...READ»

Should We Pick Our Customers?

 I have been thinking for some time about companies including sustainability credentials in picking who they want as their customers. I know, I know, readers who are sustainability practitioners are thinking now that they ...READ»

Solar Installation - how long does it take?

I am often asked how long it took to build our solar installation in El Segundo   The installation has approaching 3000 modules, a combination of a raised tracking system over the parking lot and fixed ...READ»

The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness

Five countries—Singapore, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and South Korea—outperform the United States in international competitiveness and innovation, according to The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & U.S. Innovation and ...READ»

The Four Dimensions of Sustainability

Reducing impact on climate change is a challenge many corporations are trying to tackle. Many organizations are up for the challenge but many are unsure of where to begin among the myriad of activities on the table. Due to ...READ»

The Four Dimensions of Sustainability

Reducing impact on climate change is a challenge many corporations are trying to tackle. Many organizations are up for the challenge but many are unsure of where to begin among the myriad of activities on the table. Due to ...READ»

How far is too far?

I’ve been thinking a lot about legal issues and the impact on CSR. As I’ve written my past two posts, CSR Debate and Legal Doesn’t Equal Sustainable, there has been yet another issue that has come to mind. If the legal ...READ»

It’s the Digital Economy, Stupid

While a variety of reasons exist for why President Clinton defeated President Bush, Sr. in 1992, a primary reason was his focus on the economy.  We saw a replay of this scenario in 2008 with President-elect Obama defeating his rival, ...READ»

Amar Bhidé's Book on Venturesome Consumption Gets It Half Right

This October, Columbia Business School Professor Amar Bhidé published a new book called The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World. Bhidé’s core thesis is that technologies developed ...READ»

2008 State New Economy Index Released by ITIF and the Kauffman Foundation

Five states—Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey—are leading the United States’ transformation into a global, entrepreneurial and knowledge- and innovation-based New Economy, according to The 2008 State ...READ»

ICT   |  Comment

Collaboration and Competition in the Development of Renewable Energy

I have just returned from a meeting for the World Resources Institute Green Power Market Development Group that BT hosted at our headquarters in El Segundo, CA. The group, of which BT is a member, is a collaboration of leading ...READ»

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Digital Quality of Life

While new gadgets like the iPhone and the ever-shrinking iPod still elicit amazement and appreciation among the general public, most do not recognize the true impact that the IT revolution has had and continues to have on our daily lives.READ»