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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

STEEPLED: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical, and Demographic. Property rights, including protection of intellectual property (trade marks, copyright, patents, registered designs, trade secrets, software and circuit layouts). Government support (e.g. Industry regulation.

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Ethics Lapses Rears Its Ugly Head, Yet Again…

The Consultants Peer Group

Ethics is a crucial aspect of management consulting, as it affects the trust, reputation, and value of the profession. Management consultants are expected to adhere to high ethical standards and principles, such as those set forth by the Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA) in its Code of Ethics1.

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Tailoring the ISO 20700 Checklist to Your Consulting Projects

Effective Managers

These policies ensure that the consultancy services are delivered in a professional, ethical, and transparent manner, contributing to the overall success and sustainability of the project.

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The rules and procedures that govern how organizations use technology to conduct business, Information technology (IT) policies are crucial to security, efficiency and productivity and shouldn’t be considered optional, static or one-size-fits all.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

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.

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

Any internet platform company doing business in China has to negotiate a major business and ethical dilemma: The Chinese government enforces overbearing regulations that censor speech in the name of national security and, under common conceptions of international norms, violate human rights. Intellectual property theft.

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The Lingering Cost of Instant Fashion

Harvard Business

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.

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