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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Seattle has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to optimise energy use – featured in this report on big data use by different cities. Big Data poses challenges that have to be addressed by all areas of responsibility of a company: legal, ethical, marketing, personnel, risk management and financial.

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We Shouldn’t Always Need a “Business Case” to Do the Right Thing

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” The executive needs a business case.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Are these huge major financial institutions not just too big to fail, their leaders “too big to jail” (as some critics charge), but also “too big to manage”?

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The Big Picture of Business – Biggest Excuses They Use… and You Should Avoid: Rationales and Reasons Why Businesses Fail

Strategy Driven

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Some companies succeed in their early stages because of raw energy. Relate Articles: The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g. It’s not surprising.