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Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2015

Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, asthma, Blackberry, breast cancer, diabetes, ehealth, google, Health, iPhone, mobile, Open source, parkinsons, researchkit, transparency, windows

Cloud computing meets supply chain transparency and risk

Cloud computing meets supply chain transparency and risk

By Tom Raftery on April 25, 2014

Supply chains? Yawn, right? While supply chains may seem boring, they are of vital importance to organisations, and their proper management can make, or break companies. Some recent examples of where poorly managed supply chains caused at best, serious reputational damage for companies include the Apple Computers child labour and workers suicide debacle; the Tesco […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Infor, supply chain, supply chain risk, supply chain transparency, transparency

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

More Serendipitous Social Upside Vignettes

More Serendipitous Social Upside Vignettes

By Susan Scrupski on November 1, 2011

Continuing with my series on unexpected windfalls and other business benefits realized from socialworking, here are two more examples.  I need to anonymize these to protect the member companies.  One is a large retailer, the other is a large life sciences multi-national. Social Delivers the Goods (and more) We’ve all had that experience when we […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged authenticity, Business Outcomes, business value, case studies, savings, social business, social software, transparency, Trends Research

Why BankSimple Will Get My Business

Why BankSimple Will Get My Business

By Basab Pradhan on March 6, 2011

I bank with a well-known national bank. We’ll call it CurrentBank. I’ve banked with CurrentBank, for more than a decade. I like to keep things simple, so I don’t have any other accounts. But as soon as BankSimple is up and running, I will open an account with them. Read on to find out why. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Banking, BankSimple, bogus fees, Cathay Pacific, Credit card, customer care, Debit card, financial service, transparency | 4 Responses

Power to the People?

Power to the People?

By Jeff Nolan on March 1, 2011

Now like never before, transparency is allowing for a shift of power from corporations to the people. – SXSW Agenda What a crock of shit… if anything the regulatory actions that were supposed to lead to more transparency have only created more opaqueness. Has SarbOx created more financial transparency or reduced the prevalence of corporate […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Federal Communications Commission, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, South by Southwest, transparency

Transparency Will Save Us

Transparency Will Save Us

By Chris Selland on December 31, 2010

Despite all that is wrong with today’s society – and some frightening historical parallels – I remain fundamentally an optimist.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Economic, Economic history, Julian Assange, transparency, Uncategorized, United States, Wikileaks | 2 Responses

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not?  The Backdoor Experiment.

Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not? The Backdoor Experiment.

By Zoli Erdos on October 29, 2010

There’s a debate going on about 37Signal’s “hidden” “unannounced” price increase of their popular Basecamp service. Apparently most of the uproar wasn’t so much due to the price hike itself, but the fact that it happened without any announcement. Cinovate Cinovate Cloud Inn. Why did 37 Signal’s Basecamp price double unannounced? http://bit.ly/bLan2a Contact Cinovate for […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 37signals, application software, marketing, pricing, project management, transparency, zoho | 1 Response

Slick Rick

Forget Slick: Reputation, Transparency, and Guts

By Bob Warfield on June 18, 2010

It’s been a little while since I wrote about a Seth Godin post.  ‘Bout time.  Godin is a must-read for me, and all of his posts are pithy, relevant, and urgent to understand. Today’s subject is a brief post entitled simply, “Slick.” We all crave slick.  In media, it is a signalling device for success […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Jaron Lanier, marketing, Seth Godin, slick, strategy, transparency, Virtual reality, Web 2.0

SAP’s latest Sustainability Report is Awesome!

SAP’s latest Sustainability Report is Awesome!

By Tom Raftery on May 15, 2010

SAP released its 2009 Sustainability Report during the week and if last years Sustainability Report was good, this one is outta the park! SAP released their first Sustainability Report in November 08 reporting on the 2007 year. It was a good initial effort (prepared in accordance with the GRI guidelines and achieving a “C” level […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Carbon footprint, EHS, google, greenmonk, sap, SAP Carbon Impact, Sustainability, sustainability performance management, sustainability report, transparency

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