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Flourishing in a Social Enterprise World

Tom Spencer

Rise of Social Enterprise. The growing trend towards social enterprise could be a game changer. A social enterprise, in essence, is an organisation which is not run primarily for profit and is required to reinvest any profits to further its social aims. A world based on social enterprise may be closer than you think.

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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

Customer relationship management – Companies are expected to maintain positive customer relationship by investing in things like product safety, user experience, brand values, honest advertising, and data protection. This commitment extends across its entire production process, from sourcing raw materials to the final product assembly.

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

Harvard Business

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.”

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

The primary goal of becoming a data-driven organization is to improve decision making, which in turn will provide customers with better products or services and as a result increase profitability and facilitate business growth. . Data privacy, ethics, and security will be treated as areas of required competency. References .

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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business

90% of them reference ethical behavior or use the word “integrity,” 88% mention commitment to customers, and 76% cite teamwork and trust. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

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Can We Keep Our Biases from Creeping into AI?

Harvard Business

This lack of diversity is reflected in the products it produces. Software and hardware engineers regularly test new technology products to ensure they are not harmful to people or businesses that will use them in the real world. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches.