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Creating sustainable growth

B21Ceditor — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:45:53 +0000

How can we decouple growth from negative social and environmental impacts? Like all big questions, this is not an easy one to answer. Anthony Howard discusses the challenges business leaders face in our changing world.

Edition 54 – Sustainable enterprise

gabriella-lahti — Sun, 22 May 2011 10:07:22 +0000

Green energy, corporate social responsibility and fair trade have become bigger issues in recent years, and with carbon pricing being hotly debated, do we understand what sustainable enterprise means? What impact can business have? Who is doing it well? Professor Suzanne Benn joins Business 21C Weekly to talk sustainability.

Edition 48 – The ‘Like’ economy

gabriella-lahti — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:24:32 +0000

As Facebook, Twitter, YouTube become increasingly ubiquitous in all facets of our personal and professional lives, there is little doubt that social media is changing the pace of business. This week, Business21C weekly examines the “Like” economy. We talk to Rod McGuinness, social media producer at ABC Radio, Gay Flashman, director at digtital communications firm Formative, and Sandra de Castron from NAB about the ramifications of social media on business.

What makes collaboration work?

B21Ceditor — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:23:42 +0000

The reality of corporate collaboration is that almost every second alliance fails. Yet some organisations are spectacularly successful at developing alliance cultures. Dr Jochen Schweitzer explains how leadership and governance are key to successful collaboration.

Integrative Thinking

B21Ceditor — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:04:19 +0000

A common characteristic among many successful leaders, according to Jennifer Riel and her colleagues at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is the capacity to analyse two opposing concepts and quickly formulate a third and superior model.…

Edition 35: Best of 2010 – The business of news

gabriella-lahti — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:00:10 +0000

Today is the second and last "best of 2010" with a repeat of 'The business of news'. Our guest is career journalist Tony Maniaty, veteran international reporter of conflict and crisis from East Timor to Lithuania.

What is COP16?

B21Ceditor — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:06:38 +0000

The United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international environmental treaty that was established at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992.

The treaty aimed to address the rise in greenhouse gas emissions and its…

Sentiment analysis: the internet becomes a focus group

B21Ceditor — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:23:15 +0000

The new tools and techniques emerging from sentiment analysis will reap valuable insights out of the cacophony of the social web, without the need for surveys, polling call centres, or focus groups.

Pull: The power of the semantic web to transform your business

B21Ceditor — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:53:13 +0000

The internet is changing. It’s becoming driven by structured data, and as the databases connect, computers will be able to make rule-based assumptions and take action on our behalf, as individuals, and businesses. This interconnection is often referred to as…

Creative Innovation 2010, the wrap

B21Ceditor — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:55:45 +0000

Creativity and innovation are the new business black. We report from Tania de Jong's Creative Innovation 2010, a creative thinking extravaganza, launched with courage, executed with style.