• Home
  • Blog
  • Who We Are
  • Contact
  • Sponsors
Enterprise Irregulars
Smart Thinking for the Smart Enterprise
  • Featured Posts
  • Business
  • Technology / Software
  • Trends & Concepts
  • Startup Lessons

Sustainability

Epson EcoTank – an inkjet printer which doesn’t use inkjet cartridges

Epson EcoTank – an inkjet printer which doesn’t use inkjet cartridges

By Tom Raftery on November 29, 2015

“Oh boy, I just love buying inkjet cartridges”. Said no-one. Ever. They are expensive, they run out just when we need them most, or worse they clog, and there is never a recycling bin nearby when it is time to dispose of them. So what’s the choice? Laser printers? Well, they are good for black […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ecotank, epson, inkjet, inkjet cartridge, inkjet printer, Sustainability

Apple, cloud computing, and enterprise supply chain management

Apple, cloud computing, and enterprise supply chain management

By Tom Raftery on February 19, 2015

Apple’s recent announcements around renewables and supply chain transparency, put the major cloud providers to shame. Apple had a couple of interesting announcements last week. The first was that they were investing $848m in a 130MW solar farm being built by First Solar in California. With this investment, Apple enters into a 25 year power […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, green cloud, renewables, supply chain, supply chain transparency, supplychain, Sustainability

Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck

Technology for Good – episode thirty four with Salesforce’s John Tascheck

By Tom Raftery on October 19, 2014

Welcome to episode thirty four of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode our guest was SalesForce SVP of Strategy, John Taschek. John and I are both longtime members of the Enterprise Irregulars, but this was the first time John and I had had a conversation outside of email! Some of the more […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, apps, climate, Comms, Electricity 2.0, GreenMonkTV, Hardware, Internet of Things, IoT, John Taschek, mobility, Open source, Privacy, salesforce.com, security, Sustainability, wearables

SAP Startup Focus in newly industrialised countries

SAP Startup Focus in newly industrialised countries

By Tom Raftery on December 19, 2013

As we have said before here, sustainability job number one is putting bread on the table. To that end, it was great to see SAP’s Startup Focus program take off so well, gaining over 1,000 companies signed up in less than two years. We profiled the Startup Focus program on GreenMonk earlier this year, talking […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Employment, sap, startup, startup focus, Sustainability

Ariba’s AribaLive conference reviewed

Ariba’s AribaLive conference reviewed

By Tom Raftery on June 11, 2013

I attended the AribaLive event in Berlin last week – this is the European conference for Ariba customers and partners to share stories, network and learn from one another. Ariba is a company which provides electronic sales and procurement solutions for companies. There are over 1 million companies in 190 countries using Ariba. Customer companies […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba, Ariba network, conflict minerals, Dematerialisation, eInvoicing, electronic invoicing, eprocurement, supplier risk management, Sustainability, transparency

Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?

Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?

By Tom Raftery on November 20, 2012

The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged carbon intensity, Cloud, cloud carbon intensity, Cloud Computing, cloud infrastructure, data center, emissions data, Greenhouse gas, greenwash, greenwashing, salesforce, salesforce.com, singapore, Spain, Sustainability

Sustainability, social media and big data

Sustainability, social media and big data

By Tom Raftery on November 1, 2012

The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before. Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged american red cross, Big Data, Dell, Facebook, GE, grid iq insight, Health, Radian6, safety, sandy, Social Media, Sustainability, Twitter

CloudApps releases their employee engagement app Sumo

CloudApps releases their employee engagement app Sumo

By Tom Raftery on October 12, 2012

CloudApps recently released SuMo, their sustainability employee engagement app. The name SuMo comes from the words Sustainability Momentum we’re told, and this is because SuMo was designed to maintain the momentum of an organisation’s sustainability initiative. GreenMonk was given a demo account on SuMo so we could take it for a test drive, and it […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged cloudapps, employee engagement, recruitment, retention, sumo, Sustainability | 7 Responses

Oracle OpenWorld Takes the Stage

Oracle OpenWorld Takes the Stage

By Denis Pombriant on September 28, 2012

All right!  Recess is over!  If you went to Dreamforce last week you can be forgiven for taking a kind of victory lap in your head today because it was a truly great experience, besides if you are like me you are still tired.  One reason I think so many people like Dreamforce is its […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Colin Powel, CRM, Dreamforce, Fusion, Larry Ellison, M.C. Hammer, oow12, Oracle OpenWorld, Sustainability, technology

Logica’s Sustainability Analyst briefing

Logica’s Sustainability Analyst briefing

By Tom Raftery on June 17, 2012

Logica held a Sustainability Analysts day in London recently and they invited me to attend. Pictured above is the cover of Logica’s 2011 Annual Report [PDF] – their Annual Report mind, not their Sustainability Report [PDF]. And yet the title of Logica’s Annual Report is Shaping a Sustainable Future. This is a good indicator of […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged eco mobility, logica, smart utilities, Sustainability

Next »

feed mail facebook twitter linkedin

Partner Posts

zoho logo
  • ProTips: 4 pointers to leverage WhatsApp for customer communication
  • Why send transactional emails?
  • Go paperless this Earth Day!
  • Zoho Recruit ranks in “Top 8 Staffing Agency Software Solutions” by SoftwareSelect Reviews
  • How to show appreciation to your employees
  • Top 5 HR strategies for small businesses
  • How to promote gender equality in your organization

EI Tweets

My Tweets

Popular Posts

  • The Top 20 Cybersecurity Startups To Watch In 2021
  • The Top 20 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2021
  • Burning Platform: The future of "as a service"
  • Event Report: Google Cloud Industries Analyst Day
  • Strategy, Business Model, and Who's Your Customer
  • Three types of GUIs - past, present and the future
  • Incumbents aren't always incumbent. The case of Employee Communications.
  • A Memo regarding Corporate Social Media policies

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Authors

  • Anshu Sharma
  • Bob Warfield
  • Brian Sommer
  • Dave Kellogg
  • David Terrar
  • Denis Pombriant
  • Dion Hinchcliffe
  • Esteban Kolsky
  • Evangelos Simoudis
  • James Governor
  • Jason Corsello
  • Jason M. Lemkin
  • Louis Columbus
  • Michael Krigsman
  • Naomi Bloom
  • Paul Greenberg
  • Phil Fersht
  • R "Ray" Wang
  • Raju Vegesna
  • Ross Mayfield
  • Sameer Patel
  • Sandy Kemsley
  • Susan Scrupski
  • Thomas Otter
  • Tom Raftery
  • Vijay Vijayasankar
  • Vinnie Mirchandani
  • Zoli Erdos
Sponsored by: