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Siri Hires Mobile Expert Gummi Hafsteinsson Away From Google
Prior to joining Google, Gummi founded and ran a company called Dimon Software that produced mobile enterprise connectivity software designed to enable enterprises to access corporate IT systems from any mobile device. We haven’t heard all that much from Siri , the venture-backed startup that is working on virtual assistant applications for smartphones. Still well below most people’s radar, the company raised $24 million in venture capital and recently released its first app for the iPhone after nearly a year of development .
TechCrunch - Friday, March 19, 2010
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The Oracle Effect: Sun's Best and Brightest Move On to New Places
So, in the midst of corporate upheaval, developers can move onto new places and not face any interruption in their work. What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun's best and brightest have moved on to in the past few months. Tim Bray is the latest Sun star to move on.
ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Las Vegas Sands Corporation Embraces Green Building in Sin City
billion, 18 million square foot sustainable development, and now with the Las Vegas Sands Corporation's Eco 360º Global Sustainable Development program. The Sands Corporation has already made some impressive inroads into sustainability. Simple: it saves the Sands Corporation money. Las Vegas, land of excess, has started to clean up its act recently--first with the CityCenter , an $8.5 The program, announced this week, offers up standards for future construction and development of Sands properties and highlights past achievements that up until now have gone unpublicized.
Fast Company - Thursday, March 18, 2010
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  • Is Your Business Useless?
    Cobra's corporate alias was called Arbco, and too many businesses see value creation as arbitrage: buy low, sell high. Tags: Corporate social responsibility Econom These days, lots of people ask me: "Phew! So, the crisis is over, right?" Wrong.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, October 26, 2009
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  • Corporate Policies on Web 2.0
    And most corporate guidelines out there around social media are fairly similar. They generally make each employee personally responsible, they need to abide by existing corporate rules, obey copyright and other IP rules, keep secrets and act appropriately. I think IBM's policy is a pretty good starting point: IBM Social Computing Guidelines Other company policies or discussions of guidelines I've seen around blogging, social media, web 2.0: Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy Thomas One of the barriers commonly cited during my presentations around eLearning 2.0 (use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools.
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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  • Corporate Social Responsibility as Insurance
    The question "should corporations actively invest in socially responsible stuff , or should they simply focus on making money?" Tags: Corporate social responsibility Green business Strateg continues to linger and re-emerge on the business agenda (especially, it seems, around the time that business-minds return from their annual swarm to Davos ). People are then quick to shout "but they are not two different things; behaving in a socially responsible way will in the long run also make you better off financially!"
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 26, 2009
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  • How Corporate Responsibility Can Survive the Recession
    Corporations engaged in recession-driven cost-cutting are trimming or eliminating corporate responsibility initiatives. Though corporate survival is key and consumer skepticism of business CR initiatives at an all-time high, such actions are short-sighted. Critical cross-border global issues require multinational corporations and their CEOs to lead in the search for solutions, recession or not. Now more than ever, businesses need to be saying "yes" rather than "no" to their social responsibilities.There are five key reasons: 1.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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  • Corporate Training
    Jay Cross - father of the Informal Learning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. His recent posts make me really think (that's good) but also make me wonder ... How many people really have the opportunity to pursue the Future of Corporate Training? More on this below ... But first some context. Courseware and Broader eLearning Jay's post eLearning is not the It’s cheaper: no travel, no facilities cost, no instructor salaries. This sort of fanciful thinking tripped up eLearning ten years ago. ....
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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  • Modern Corporate Training: The Enterprise Learning Framework
    Over the last year or so we have talked with hundreds of companies about their desire to transform their corporate training programs to take advantage of social networking, knowledge management,... Bersin Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management ...Tags: Tags: Enterprise Learning LMS, LCMS Learning 2.0
    Josh Bersin - Sunday, May 24, 2009
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  • The Best Way to Change a Corporate Culture
    "I'd like to talk to you about a big project," the woman told me on the phone. "We We need to change our culture." She She was a senior leader in a professional services firm, where people really are their most important asset. Only it turns out the people weren't so happy.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, June 25, 2009
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  • Wal-Mart's Environmental Game-Changer
    Tags: Consumer goods Corporate social responsibility Green busines Wal-Mart has just changed the game with respect to environmental issues. Now it doesn't matter whether Congress' new cap-and-trade law meets all its promises, nor whether the G-8 leaders dithered rather than acted on environmental issues. Wal-Mart's unilateral decision to put its purchasing and communication power behind going green also shows that a single company using
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, July 16, 2009
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  • Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools
    I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post. Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us IBM Lotus Connections Scuttle – Open Source WSSsearch - SharePoint add-on Any others?
    eLearning Technology - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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  • Inside Procter & Gamble's New Values-Based Strategy
    Tags: Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovatio On the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' fall, the question remains: What, if anything, has changed in the mentality of the financial community? While Wall Street wallows in tales of the fallen, a different, more promising approach to capitalism is rising. Procter & Gamble, the world's largest consumer products
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, September 14, 2009
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