Category: Workplace

  • Microsoft’s opportunity post-Scoble

    Some of the blogosphere commentary following Robert Scoble’s news that he is leaving Microsoft to join Podtech in July is on who will be the next Scoble at Microsoft. If such a question refers to someone taking on the same…

  • Who is the conscience for corporate ethics?

    A new report from the IABC Research Foundation shows that less than half of companies encourage discussion of moral dilemmas and criticism of censurable conduct at the workplace. “The Business of Truth: A Guide to Ethical Communication” says most organizations…

  • SAP and the science of market disruption

    German enterprise software vendor SAP is open to an acquisition by US technology groups, according to a Financial Times report yesterday: […] Hasso Plattner, supervisory board chief at the German group, said in an interview with FT Deutschland, the FT’s…

  • Word 2007 supports blogging

    Could this be the killer application for Windows users for managing and editing blogs? Hot news from Joe Friend, a lead program manager on the Word 2007 software design team: […] We’ve been working late into the nights and very…

  • The meaning of corporate governance

    The Summit for The Future on Risk conference starts today in Amsterdam and runs until Friday. I’ll be there this afternoon and Thursday morning, participating in the corporate governance knowledge stream. Should be a stimulating session with plenty to talk…