Recently, more companies have focused their attention on analytics and the role that they play in reinventing company management practices. Participants at MIT’s CIO Symposium on “Emerging Stronger from the Downturn” reported an increased use of data analysis and analytics applications to “understand customers, parse trends, distribute decision making, and manage risk.”
To help managers capitalize on the ways in which information and analytics are changing the competitive landscape, MIT Sloan School of Management and the IBM Institute for Business Value have initiated a research program entitled “The New Intelligent Enterprise,” which addresses the following: Read More
Sustainability is on every corporate radar. The strength of the signal and distance from action vary. In some cases, internal task groups have been formed, sustainability risk assessments have been performed, and actions have been incorporated into operations, products, and services. In other cases, none or some of these activities have been started, or actions have not gone beyond PR drivers.
It’s common knowledge that sustainability is a big deal. It is a multidimensional issue that impacts all sectors of society. Companies wrestle with how they are going to respond beyond the obvious of energy conservation and waste reduction, when sustainability begins to blur with corporate social responsibility (CSR).