Saturday, November 13, 2010

La Californie adopte une loi sur la divulgation

J'ai l'habitude de commenter d'avantage les nouvelles qui transforment la société, mais cette fois je céderai la place à l'excellent article de Toby Webb, propriétaire de la firme de recherche Ethical Corporation, sur son blogue.

Il s'agit d'une analyse pointue d'une loi inédite qui contraint les grandes entreprises californiennes à rendre compte de leurs efforts pour améliorer les droits de la personne sur la chaîne d'approvisionnement.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The sustainability imperative: the new IT megatrend?

A recent article in the Harvard Business Review entitled "The Sustainability Imperative" caught my attention" review caught my attention. This is mostly due to the title, which promised to firm-up the business case for sustainability.

What I found was indeed helpful in that respect, but also surprisingly prophetic in it's assertion that sustainability is equivalent in its business impacts to the information technology revolution, electrification, mass production and globalization in their respective eras:  a "megatrend" that is already, and will continue to define the way companies do business.