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By Tom Raftery on March 5, 2010
HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the No. 1 spot, as a result of its scores in seven [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged green numbers, hp, Porsche, Sustainability, Uncategorized
By Paul Greenberg on March 3, 2010
(Just a brief note. I’m writing this with a TERRIBLE cold and I don’t feel particularly sharp. In fact I feel about as sharp as a bar of soap – proof positive is this awful analogy).
I’m not a Kremlin watcher when it comes to most large companies, though I do admit to an unhealthy curiosity [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Business, crm vendors, Industry Analysis, sap, SAP Insider, Sustainability, Thought Leadership
By Tom Raftery on February 25, 2010
This is the third of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the CTO of Silver Springs Networks, Raj Vaswani.
It was a great interview – in it we talked about:
Raj’s definition and the benefits of a Smart Grid
The fact that, to-date Smart Grids are quite notional
How long it will be [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Energy, GreenMonkTV, home energy portals, raj Vaswani, silver springs networks, smart grid, Smart Grid Heavy Hitters, smart meters, Sustainability, v2g, vehicle to grid, Video
By Tom Raftery on February 19, 2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:
World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | The Guardian
Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment
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Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged belgian chocolate, child labour, child slaves, employee engagement, environmental damage, fair trade, fairtrade, financially accountable, GreenNumbers, Oxfam, pollution, Sustainability
By Tom Raftery on February 14, 2010
I wrote about SAP’s launch of their Sustainability Performance Management software recently. This is a space which is of massively growing importance given the increasing regulations around greenhouse gas emissions, for example.
I was heartened then to hear in a recent discussion with SAS that their Sustainability Management software was launched in April 2008!
For background, [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Greenhouse gas, investment, sap, SAS, Sustainability, sustainability management, sustainability performance management
By James Governor on February 11, 2010
Sunday night about 7pm I checked my phone and the chatter was already in full effect – SAP CEO Leo Apotheker had agreed to leave the company. The hardest working man in the analyst business, Ray Wang, already had first take post online a couple of hours later. Ray is awesome, but I am sure [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Hasso Plattner, Léo Apotheker, leogone, sap, Sustainability
By Jason Busch on January 18, 2010
In my first column on Ivalua, I provided a basic company overview and a high-level look at its various solution components; in today’s post, I’ll take a closer look at Ivalua and its various modules and products.
What stood out most about Ivalua…
Posted in Software | Tagged Ivalua, procurement, Sourcing, Spend Management, supply risk, Sustainability, Visibility
By Tom Raftery on December 14, 2009
I wrote a piece on SAP’s new Sustainability Performance Management (SPM) tool a few weeks back. At time of writing it was very much in the realms of speculation as the product was, as yet, unreleased.
Last Thursday, Dec 10th, SAP announced the release of the software and having been given a preview of the software [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged global reporting initiative, gri, performance management, SaaS, sap, SAS, spm, Sustainability, sustainability performance management
By Jason Busch on December 2, 2009
Editor’s note: Aravo’s Tim Albinson asked if he could have the chance to issue a formal response to this post from earlier today. After I agreed to turn over the virtual pen, he sent me this.
Jason,
Thanks for the great write-up — you do an ex…
Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, aravo, Category Management, Cisco, innovation, Letters to the Editor, SIM, Spend Management, supply chain, supply risk, Sustainability, Tim Albinson, Visibility, WebEx
