• Social Enterprise… A Business with a Blogging Conscience

Everything has intended and unintended consequences. As the world’s population increases due to better health care and nutrition delivery, the unintended consequences include increasing poverty rates and environmental damage. Out of these unintended consequences has grown an industry made up of soci...

• The Social Capital of Online Communities is Embedded in Trust

Enterprise social capital accrues from online communities designed to build participant trust and active participation. It begins with trust building.- By Joshua Ferdinand

• Financial Services Industry, Technology and Supplier Innovation

The conservative financial services industry is experiencing a technological transformation accompanied by increased cyber security risks. This sets the stage for supplier innovation. - By James Hsu

• Inviting Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders to Join the Learning Journey

Inviting Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders to Join the Learning JourneyThink the 70/20/10 principles apply only to senior leaders? Think again because frontline and mid-level managers are the people who translate strategy into execution.

• The Power of Collaboration

The Power of CollaborationSavings, Strategic Growth, and Enhanced Capabilities All Come From Collaboration

• Meeting the New Hiring Challenges of Global Onboarding Programs

Diversity managers know intuitively that diversity programs add value to the organization. Applying the ROI Methodology proves it through metrics.

• Who Owns Your Data-Consumerism Reinvented

Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Meet in Social NetworksInnovative businesses have active social networks that the entire organization can utilize. It is a system that promotes the free flow of innovation-producing knowledge

• The Virtual Organization: Network of Relationships for Innovation

The true power of the virtual enterprise will not be fully unleashed until large corporations understand the importance of virtual networks to disruptive innovation. It is networks of relationships that hold the future of innovation.

• A Winning Strategy: Anticipating and Managing Disruptive Innovation

Disruption is often considered a negative force that threatens business success. In an age of constant change, disruption has become a path to innovation.

• Minority Businesses Need to Be Eco Sharp

Minority Businesses Need to Be Eco SharpIn the Oregon town of Lake Oswego, an African American company is developing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that reduces aircraft weight and eliminates the need to carry onboard fuel. This UAV aircraft uses renewable solar energy with rechargeable ultracapac...

• Women Continue to Fill More Corporate Leadership Roles

Women Continue to Fill More Corporate Leadership RolesDespite Gains in Traditionally Male Industries, Female Representation Lags Behind

• Bring On the Innovation: Developing a Culture of Continuous Improvement

A culture of continuous improvement supports successful shared services organizations. The first two challenges in developing this culture: Changing mindsets to embrace change innovation; and developing metrics and analytics to measure success. - By Valerie Gomez

• Transforming Social Networks into Employee Collaboration Networks

Transforming Social Networks into Employee Collaboration Networks The real power of social networking is its ability to promote collaboration. The challenge for businesses is making it happen in a way that gets the most results.

• Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the Workplace

Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the WorkplaceA country is as inclusive as its least included group of people, and for Canada that group is Indigenous people. To address the issue, Indigenous Works developed a competency model for Indigenous people inclusion in the Canadian economy...

• CEO Murray Martin Showcases Diversity at Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes is well known for being a leader in the development of mailing, shipping and postage equipment and services. Customers also know the company is a leader in software development including location intelligence applications, secure tracking, data management and document composition and im...

• Plugging the Social Media Time Drain with Management Best Practices

Plugging the Social Media Time Drain with Management Best Practices

• Linking Internal Leadership Development and Business Goals Drives Value

Developing internal leaders creates a business performance engine that drives up value. The fuel comes from linking leadership development to business goals.

• Improving Organizational Systems to Mitigate Imposter Syndrome

The Journal of Behavioral Science estimates that around 70 percent of the U.S. population has experienced Imposter Syndrome. What can organizations do to combat this disruptive phenomenon?

• Cost Effective Approaches that Create Business Value

Cost effective approaches to creating business value go beyond traditional resource reductions. They focus instead on ways to empower each of the components in an integrated organization.

• Strategic Partnering for Success and Innovation

Minority and women business enterprises (MWBEs) are often hampered by barriers between where they are and where they want to be. On one side, you have established corporate practices barring historically underrepresented businesses, like MWBEs from becoming suppliers. On the other side, there are ot...

• Collaborative Computing Offers MWBEs Expanding Opportunities

Anytime the word ‘collaborative’ is used, the implication is that there will be some sort of sharing and interaction. When people collaborate, they work together to achieve something greater than could be achieved working alone. That is the same principle behind “collaborative computing.” The princi...

• Letting the Market Drive the Corporate Sustainability Model

Letting the Market Drive the Corporate Sustainability ModelMarket driven sustainability models recognize that external forces are driving a need for supplier alliances that compound results.

• Mobility: New Horizon of Supplier Opportunities in the Auto Industry

The auto industry is ever adapting to new technologies to meet the needs of digital generations in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. Disruptive technologies include diverse mobility applications which are creating new opportunities for innovative suppliers. - By Wilfred SmithTechnolo...

• Boundary Spanning Leadership for a Networked World

Boundary Spanning Leadership for a Networked WorldTraditional leadership styles don’t fit well in the interconnected business world that exists today. What is called for is leaders who can span redefined boundaries.

• Staying on Course in Golf and Business: It’s all in the Mind

Playing a good game of golf and pulling off a successful business strategy have a lot in common, and one is the psychological aspect of competition. It is mind over results. - By Vincent Pane

• Wanted: Food and Beverage Industry Suppliers Ready to Innovate and Collaborate

The food and beverage industry is one of the most volatile industries found today due to a mix of complex factors like climate change and changing customer preferences. It is the ideal setting for innovative and collaborative suppliers to start or grow their businesses.------By James Hsu

• Getting the Most Value from Employee Resource Groups

ERGs are not social clubs. They are employee groups that can make significant contributions to organizational success when structured and managed as value generators.

• Offshoring or Domestic Outsourcing in the Financial Services Industry

The financial services industry continues to face headwinds in the post-Recession era. In an effort to cut costs, the big question is: Offshoring, domestic outsourcing, or both?- By James Hsu

• Smart Grid Where’s the Value?

Smart Grid Where’s the Value?The energy companies that provide us with the heat and electricity we use in our homes have been criticized a lot in recent years. Experts have said that the billing systems and price rises that these corporations impose on consumers are underhand, and unclear to consume...

• Using External Big Data to Drive Insights into Opportunities

Using External Big Data to Drive Insights into OpportunitiesExtracting business insights from external Big Data is a complex challenge. Companies mastering that challenge are discovering new opportunities that enhance competitiveness.

• The Big Picture: Comprehensive Measurement of Inclusion of Veterans

The Big Picture: Comprehensive Measurement of Inclusion of VeteransHistorically, the results of veteran and other inclusion programs have been measured in a piecemeal manner with metrics offering information about factors like recruitment totals and spend per FTE. Metrics that give a more comprehens...

• New Era of Value Creation Through Corporate-Aboriginal Economic Unions

New Era of Value Creation Through Corporate-Aboriginal Economic UnionsBuilding economic bridges between corporate Canada and Aboriginal businesses benefits the country as a whole. Creating successful value-creating alliances is just common sense.

• Keeping Diversity and Inclusion Programs Moving Ahead

Putting a diversity and inclusion program in place and reporting benchmarked results does not guarantee progress. Results must be connected to improved strategizing and decision-making

• The Brand Experience Goes Well Beyond Brand Image

Brands are thought of in terms of what they say about products or services. What is more important is the brand experience sending a strong message to customers by promoting engagement and interaction.

• Best Practices and Benchmarking for Supplier Diversity

Best Practices and Benchmarking for Supplier Diversity

• Moving Away From Performance Reviews to Performance Management

Annual performance reviews may one day become a thing of the past because they fail to engage and motivate employees. The new trend is ongoing performance management which is better suited for today's diverse and dispersed workforce.

• Small Manufacturers Eying the Industry 4.0 Transformation

Small Manufacturers Eying the Industry 4.0 Transformation Industry 4.0 is thought of as an event that applies to large manufacturers because it includes stepping into the realm of sophisticated technologies like AI and IoT. The truth is that Industry 4.0 is as valuable to small businesses as it is t...

• The Virtual Organization: Network of Relationships for Innovation

The true power of the virtual enterprise will not be fully unleashed until large corporations understand the importance of virtual networks to disruptive innovation. It is networks of relationships that hold the future of innovation.

• Building Capacity Through Relationships with Financial Services Companies

Leveraging relationships with financial services is a strategy for capacity building. It is a way to break down hurdles to accessing the capital needed for growth. - By Wilfred Smith

• Using Social Technologies to Find the Future Business Leaders

Using Social Technologies to Find the Future Business LeadersInnovative companies are capitalizing on social technologies as transformational tools for developing connected workplaces.

• Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation

Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation A digital transformation leads to a fundamental change in everything the business does, impacting employees on all levels. Success requires leadership skills in employee engagement, to develop a shared purpose that drives a successful transformation...

• Turning a Loss at the 72nd Golf Hole into a Business Success

How a golfer responds to losing a golf game can reveal how the person will respond to losses in the business world. A bad outcome can be a major defeat or a temporary setback. - By Vincent Pane

• Placing A Firm Value On Innovation Culture

Placing A Firm Value On Innovation CultureChange is the only constant. In a global economy with rapidly changing circumstances, from trade disputes to pandemics, companies that cannot change will certainly fail. Innovation must be endemic to organizational culture to succeed in the long-term.

• Taking Cues for Offensive Business Strategies from Offensive Golf

Taking Cues for Offensive Business Strategies from Offensive GolfThere is a fine line between offensive versus aggressive strategies in golf and business. Finding balance is the path to competitive success.

• Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital Fluency

Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital FluencyHumans and digital technology are now partners, with important implications for the style of leadership needed to manage the collaboration. In a reimagined workforce, leaders are skilled in enabling both, so soft skills are elevated as key su...

• Mastering Metrics and Measurements to Improve Innovation

Quantifying the innovation process with metrics and measurements can improve results by driving strategy and performance. Choosing the intended results is the first step. - By Shaniqua Thomas

• Managing the Multigenerational Workforce Through Engagement

Just when it seems as if businesses have coped with everything imaginable, they are experiencing a new challenge: a workforce made of at least four generations.

• Supply Chains and the Case for Inclusion of People with Disabilities

“Supply chains” and “people with disabilities” are two terms that are not commonly used in the same sentence. Now there is growing realization that inclusion in the supply chain can accelerate progress socially and economically. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Medtronic Accomplishments in Supplier Diversity Space are Just the Beginning

Medtronic Accomplishments in Supplier Diversity Space are Just the BeginningMedtronic has developed a world–class global supplier diversity program by embedding supplier diversity in the organization's DNA. It is an impressive effort producing results that are the envy of other companies across...

• Leveraging ERG Allies to Build a Positive Organizational Culture

Bridging differences in a diverse workforce is an important strategy for creating and maintaining a positive productive culture. Employee resource groups are prime sources of allies who can build alliances across diversity in every category.

• Working with Suppliers to Meet the Green Imperative

Supplier sustainability metrics and scorecards are once again a trending topic as companies both large and small continue to make the green imperative a part of their business planning. Large corporations, well aware of their position in the public eye, market their supplier sustainability as a con...

• Where the Focus is Placed Determines Accuracy of the Shot

Developing mental toughness is a requirement for a successful golf game and successful leadership. The key is not letting distractions divert focus on the end game. - By Vincent Pane

• Seamlessly Aligning Procurement and Business Strategies

Seamlessly Aligning Procurement and Business Strategies A successful procurement strategy is one that seamlessly integrates business strategy with procurement objectives. In order to truly maximize cost savings, procurement strategy must operate in sync with business strategy and evolve into the fut...

• Aging Golfers Tell a Tale of the Need for Reinvention

Golfers age, just like businesses, and age has inevitable consequences. Reinventing the golfer means using golfing experience and knowledge in new ways, while reinventing a business requires adapting to new technologies and becoming more flexible. - By Vincent Pane

• Peru: Excellent Destination for Foreign Investment

Peru is seldom in the headlines, but that may be due to the fact the country is busy becoming a leading emerging market. This is a country that “walks the walk” of progress. - By William Bell

• Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation

Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation A digital transformation leads to a fundamental change in everything the business does, impacting employees on all levels. Success requires leadership skills in employee engagement, to develop a shared purpose that drives a successful transformation...

• Israel is a Major Destination for Business Innovators and Entrepreneurs

Israel is a Major Destination for Business Innovators and EntrepreneursIsrael has evolved into a global destination for business innovation by promoting and attracting entrepreneurship. The country has a high investment potential as a leader in R&D and startups per capita.

• Very Poor Countries on the Wrong Side of a Growing Logistical Divide

Very Poor Countries on the Wrong Side of a Growing Logistical DivideThe gap between developed and developing countries has been a global concern for decades, but skyrocketing oil prices and the general growth of world markets threaten to widen the gap between the developing and least developed count...

• Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

• Motivating Suppliers Through Motivated Supplier Diversity Executives

Procurement can negotiate a good price with suppliers, but that is not enough to realize the full savings, innovation, and capabilities that suppliers can bring if corporate executives brought leadership best practices to supplier relationships. Being satisfied with a good price can lead to supplier...

• Purpose is the “Why” of Everything a Business Does

Purpose is the “Why” of Everything a Business DoesPurpose drives mission and vision and goes right to the heart of a business. Leaders with Purpose understand the “why” of a business and attract others who believe the same.

• Mentorship and Leadership Planning Go Hand-in-Hand

Companies that fail to plan for leadership needs are planning for competitive failure. Mentoring is a key step in ensuring the right talent is available to manage competitive challenges and relevant business initiatives.

• Creating Sustainable Corporate Startup Incubators: 4 Lessons From Canada’s Federal Programs

The strong emphasis on bringing more incubators and business accelerators to life will only last if Canada’s businesses are willing to learn from experiments in the public federal level.Business accelerators and start up incubators have been a major funding initiative of the Canadian government thro...

• Leveraging Shared Services as a Platform for Growth

In today’s economic environment, it doesn’t make sense to duplicate services that can be consolidated. It also doesn’t make sense to financially support separate administrative functions at separate divisions or operations or in different locations when centralization would bring cost effective oper...

• Opportunities for MWBEs in Emerging Market of South Korea

South Korea has been near the top of every list of emerging markets for several years, and that means emerging opportunities for minority and women owned businesses (MWBEs). As the United States economy continues its transition from a domestic-based to a global-based economy, only the businesses tha...

• Shared Services: Creating a Service Culture

Global businesses need more than cost cutting strategies to remain competitive. The shared services model offers a comprehensive approach to achieving efficiency, cost reductions, higher quality, and increased service levels. - By Debra Jenkins

• Getting the Best Returns on Investments in Supplier Relationships

Suppliers generate value for their customers, but how does the corporate customer know it is getting the highest returns from supplier relationships? Measuring the ROI of investments in supplier relationships delivers the insights for good decision-making.

• Thriving Through Global Diversity _ Inclusion Core Values

Diversity and inclusion are core values that provide the springboard for global inclusiveness. It takes a comprehensive approach that includes developing allies, ERGs, culturally intelligent leaders, and safe communication and learning opportunities.

• Navigating Opportunities and Valuing Potential in Technology and Media

Technology and media represent an area of incredible growth opportunities for investors. When investing, there are several factors that need to be considered.

• A Financial Lesson in Small Business Outsourcing

A Financial Lesson in Small Business OutsourcingI’m sure most of you know the phrase “necessity is the mother of invention.” This expression very much applies when we experience an economic meltdown such as what we have been going through since December 2007. In volatile times, we need to realisti...

• Getting the Greatest Value from Global Business Services

Getting the Greatest Value from Global Business ServicesThe Global Business Services model offers significant cost savings, process efficiencies, and adaptability to continuous change. Accruing these benefits depends on getting and keeping the right governance in place.

• Developing the Big Picture through Purpose Driven Leadership

Developing the Big Picture through Purpose Driven LeadershipThe most effective corporate leaders are emotionally intelligent and understand that developing an organizational culture with a clear sense of purpose is critical to long-term success. It begins with inspired managers who believe that work...

• Authentically Including Men as Sponsors and Mentors of Women

It really does not make sense to implement diversity and inclusion initiatives to advance inclusion of women without talking to the people in power who can bring change. Those people are men.

• Turning Social Media Big Data into Innovation by Way of Analytics

Social media supplies a steady stream of data. Buried in that data is the path to innovation via analytics that provide insights. - By Donna Benjamin

• Building a Truly Inclusive Workplace with an Allyship Strategy

Business leaders have worked for years to build inclusive workplaces, but stopping at inclusion is not getting desired results. There are new elements to consider – belonging and allyship – to create a truly inclusive culture that develops a sense of belonging in diverse employees.

• Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital Fluency

Humanizing Leadership Skills for Workforce Digital FluencyHumans and digital technology are now partners, with important implications for the style of leadership needed to manage the collaboration. In a reimagined workforce, leaders are skilled in enabling both, so soft skills are elevated as key su...

• 21st Century Leaders: Global, Growing, and Going Fast

21st Century Leaders: Global, Growing, and Going FastIs your company rising to the development challenge?

• Generating Value with Sustainability Reporting

Generating Value with Sustainability Reporting

• Managing Innovation Paradoxes to Accelerate Transformative Innovation

Integrating the perspectives of creative thinkers and executors is key to managing the paradoxes that naturally occur in organizations while generating transformative innovation.

• A Passion for Entrepreneurship Takes Corium Solutions around the World

The entrepreneurial effort can head down many different paths. For Corium Solutions that path went global but only after grasping a series of events as opportunities.

• Belonging in the Workplace is not the Same as ‘Fitting in’

There is a clear, proven business case for diversity and inclusion. But inclusion often drives "fitting in," meaning people mix with others in the workplace but strive to hide their unique ideas and experiences. The next step after inclusion is belonging in which people are valued for their unique t...

• Accelerating The Innovation Agenda: Tapping into Innovations with Suppliers

Innovation is something that should always be on the agenda for any business relationship. However, for many supplier relationships, there is little urgency for innovations within an established framework that is working reasonably well. Unfortunately, while falling into secure balance may be a co...

• On a Learning Journey to Build Leadership Bench Strength

Creating a learning journey requires developing a process of formal and experiential learning, and networking. Effective leader development is a continuous process. - By Dave Desouza

• South Coast Paper Thrives Through Capital Shortage, Hurricanes and Recessions

South Coast Paper’s growth was earned through efforts focusing on viability in manufacturing plants, and through effective sales and marketing. But real success was achieved through innovative sustainability efforts revolving around meeting customer needs. - By Sharon Rossm

• Strengthening Inclusion and Diversity by Fostering a Culture of Empathy

North American businesses spend billions of dollars every year on D&I initiatives, yet many fail to move the needle. Something is missing, and it could be a lack of empathy. - By Daniel Perez

• Businesses Taking the Lead in Reducing Global Carbon Emissions

It is not government but businesses that are leading the charge to reduce global carbon emissions. They realize it is good for people and equally good for business to take the leading role in making an impact on meeting global climate targets. - By Andrew Hale