Social Responsibility

Feb 21 2009   12:03PM GMT

What is your organization’s single greatest economic denominator?

Posted by: viip
Jim Collins, Inherent Quality, 2020, Continual Improvement, Social Responsibility

For those familiar with the work of Jim Collins, great organizations have apparently profound insight into the inner workings of their economics because they are able to pick one ratio to systematically increase over time that will have the greatest most sustainable impact on their economic engine (or for the social sectors, their resource engine).  Perhaps every organization needs to ask themselves, what is their single greatest economic denominator, and how can they develop a sustainable engine to deliver superior performance relative to their mission. If every organization did this perhaps this would greatly assist with having sustained social and economic continual improvement globally before, by and beyond perfect vision leap year 2020.

Thank you for all you do. Have a great day, and future.

Feb 20 2009   8:20PM GMT

The Greatest Economic Denominator

Posted by: viip
CNA, Inherent Quality, Jim Collins, Good To Great, Social Responsibility

the social impact of learning or being exposed to learning is the greatest economic denominator of this college

Jean Madill, President, CNA

 

Jan 8 2009   4:20AM GMT

Report and Model (Responsibility and Governance)

Posted by: viip
Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM, Social Responsibility, Governance, Data Governance, Inherent Quality

 

This report may help generate a few good ideas; and this model may help further thinking relative to maturing governance, including relative to data.

 

 

All the best in the years of the future. Thank you for all you do.

Dec 17 2008   10:40AM GMT

Green ecard from CNA

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, CNA, Social Responsibility, College of the North Atlantic

Sharing a Green ecard from the College of the North Atlantic. Merry Christmas and many Happy New Years to all.

Dec 13 2008   12:20PM GMT

One million acts of kindness

Posted by: viip
IBM, Inherent Quality, Unity and Diversity, 2020, Zen, Social Responsibility, Continual Improvement, Building a Smarter Planet, One million acts of kindness

The efforts of IBM and many others are making a positive difference from many perspectives. Ideally before, by and beyond 2020 positive actions of Green, Social Responsibility, Humanitarianism, Professionalism and so on (e.g., One million acts of kindness), will reach unimagined dimensions of intrinsic and pervasive joy, peace, goodness, greatness and love thanks to all who are interconnected by software, technology and the sharing of information, ideas and progress. Thank you for each step you take for you and others in a positive forward thinking open minded direction. Merry Christmas and many Happy New Years!

Dec 3 2008   3:33PM GMT

Celebration, December 5 (you can make a positive difference)

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, Community, Unity and Diversity, Teamwork, Zen, Fellowship, American Express, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Eco-Innovation, Sustainability, Climate Change, iStudio, Green Coalition, CIBC, Avis, Aeroplan, Green it up, Carbon Offset

On December 5, Aeroplan will celebrate! This post takes no credit and simply shares awareness. 

You can help make a positive difference. Thank you for doing so! 

From: Szigeti, Meighan [mailto:mszigeti@istudio.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:50 PM
To: info@inherentquality.com
Subject: Aeroplan Green It Up

Hi Ron,

My name is Meighan, a consultant from iStudio Canada (www.istudio.ca) contacting you on behalf of Aeroplan (www.aeroplan.com).  I’m contacting you about your blog, VIIP beam it up, so I hope contacting you through info@inherentquality.com is alright. You  posted almost a year ago on Aeroplan’s Green It Up program, with some positive and thoughtful comments on how these initiatives can impact both the IT industry, and the future of the environment. On Friday, December 5, Aeroplan will celebrate the one-year anniversary of Green it Up, a program that enables members to use Aeroplan Miles to buy carbon offsets and offset the emissions generated by their reward travel and everyday activities. To increase the environmental benefit, Aeroplan matches member contributions by an additional 20%.  This Friday, however, to encourage members to take action to reduce the collective impact on the environment, Aeroplan, along with its Green Coalition of Partners: American Express, CIBC, and Avis will each match all miles redeemed for carbon offsets up to 50%. 

Aeroplan does not generate any revenue from the Carbon Offset Program or Green It Up and to help understand the effect, if 2,000 Aeroplan Members each redeem 7,500 miles to purchase carbon offsets, the combined impact would be equivalent to:

-          Taking 3,500 cars off the road for one year

-          Burning 8.25 million fewer litres of gasoline

-          Countering the emissions created by 1,700 homes

In terms of digital assets, you can share with your readers, friends and online community members the following links: 

1.       The main Aeroplan Green It Up program page (which you might already know about)

www.aeroplan.com/offset

2.      Information on the Carbon Reduction Fund and projects.

www.carbonreductionfund.com

We want Aeroplan members and the public to know that they can offset their carbon impact when using air travel in a meaningful way.  Drop a line if you need more information or if this is a topic you are interested.

Best, Meighan Szigeti

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Meighan Szigeti
Associate Consultant, iStudio
CanadaDirect: 416-645-3653
Main: 416-598-8061 ext. 327 Fax: 416-598-8096
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Oct 19 2008   4:20AM GMT

Leadership is…

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Leadership, Research, Social Responsibility, Pirsig, Covey, Dyer, MOQ, Continual Improvement

It may be that as each person practices humility and develops a mindset that opens them to connecting to and maturing common wisdoms, they are helping to enable the powerful intentions of something far greater than ego and pride. It may be that all can be leaders, and that leadership is about caring and the courage to right wrongs for the benefit of all. It may be leadership is about empowering all to be leaders for helping ensure the quality they produce, affect and contribute towards. It may be that increasing empowerment requires looking within the cores of waves of trust to ensure the intent of each action of each person includes benefit for others. It may be that looking within values, the metaphysics of quality (e.g.), and the work of others (e.g., Covey, Dyer and many more), may be necessary for the collective to increasingly enable greater dimensions of intrinsic and pervasive quality and value. It may be that a mindset for goodness is associated with continually achieving greatness and ever higher forms of social responsibility. It may be that pursuing unimagined to-be-discovered dimensions of excellence means increasingly moving towards simplicity. It may be that increasingly integration of work and life will enable greater global forms of balance. It may be that software, technology, information and people will increasingly work better together to make things continually better before, by and beyond 2020.

For those who may wonder, this blogger enjoys home, employment and life and simply wishes the best for all in present and future.

Oct 9 2008   4:20PM GMT

10 out of 10, a recorded Sept ‘08 event you may want to look in on

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, Science, 2020, CNA, Social Responsibility, Engineering, Sustainability, Students, Suzuki, Bondar, Climate Change

David Suzuki – Campus Tour

BTW, you may also enjoy some Currents reading about CNA, including an article about an instructor who recently was chair for the first World Virtual Science and Engineering Fair at which Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canadian Astronaut, Physician, Scientist, Author and Photographer, was a special guest and judge.

Continual advances in collaboration will enable quantum leaps in quality on route to 2020 and increasingly greater dimensions of value-inherent, intrinsic and pervasive.

Oct 7 2008   4:20PM GMT

The Cloud and beyond

Posted by: viip
Security, Inherent Quality, Cloud Computing, Internet Evolution, Social Responsibility

Sharing awareness of a couple of Internet Evolution items:

i) blog post about cyberspace protection and Einstein 3.0

ii) an IBM video about what cloud computing is and why it is vital. 

Intrinsically and pervasively quality may evolve inherent to the Cloud and Cyberspace and in some interconnected way may help to increasingly evolve balance, harmony and what social responsibility can mean for humanity.

Oct 3 2008   12:02PM GMT

Learning is treasures within a continual journey

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Learning, Social Responsibility

It may be true that the hardest part of science, and perhaps of continually combining unity and diversity to enable greater dimensions of intrinsic and pervasive common wisdom and social responsibility, is finding the right questions.

It may also be true that balance will always be innately important, for example perhaps in relation to achieving improved harmony from global perspectives.

It may also be true that Software, Technology, Information and People working together to continually share awareness, raise consciousness, and find the right questions, is also important.

It may also be true that it is important to grow a mindset that encourages seeking and discovering rather than professing to have all the answers or to have found it all.

Find your purpose, lead out loud or in some way be a contributor to continually helping to evolve quality, value, excellence and simplicity within your organization and beyond. As you do so and as you look towards increasingly being of help to progressively ensuring the future is always brighter for all, perhaps consider some common wisdom that may exist within the past, for example perhaps in relation to ancient Chinese proverbs for example that may say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; and that learning is a treasure. Perhaps also consider these words…

Quality is innately what to strive to have something consist of and how to go about ensuring such. Furthermore it [quality] is joy associated with a mindset that seeks to embed value and excellence within people, processes and products. Quality is however more than a destination… innately associated with the treasure of Learning, the two are an interconnected continual journey that is elevated and expedited by progressive increases to respect, openness, collaboration and trust. The latter, as Stephen M. R. Covey noted in his book, can enable speed. Recognizing that the journey is a journey can however enable greater global dimensions of balance, harmony, and the virtue of patience, within individuals and teams (and perhaps even within processes and products).

Within the possibilities of matters of high purpose and importance you may somehow help to inspire or contribute to (e.g., perhaps relative to progressively enabling greater global community by increasingly ensuring highly cost-effective high speed internet solutions to every home on the planet… or perhaps relative to how increased interconnectedness may one day enable a greener world where no war, poverty, health or issues or risks exist), may you be blessed with great peace and balance. Thank you for all you do. Have a great weekend and life.

Sep 21 2008   11:11AM GMT

Green, Fiction or Fact

Posted by: viip
Nortel, SAS, Software Quality, Inherent Quality, CIO, Technology, IT, Green IT, Transformation, Vision, Unity and Diversity, Value-inherent, 2020, Teamwork, Gartner, Zen, TechTarget, Social Responsibility, CIO Knowledgebase, ITtoolbox, BusinessInnovation, GreenerComputing, ITBusinessEdge

When determining Green fact or fiction there may be value to looking in on what Gartner has to say, or in digging through an ITtoolbox CIO Knowledge Base, or in exploring BusinessInnovation and what may be included for “using IT as a catalyst to succeed”, or in using a calculator (e.g., perhaps from Nortel) to determine your possible energy efficiency savings, or in reading a free report within ITBusinessEdge, or in various ways to exploring GreenerComputing and “resources for environmentally responsible computing”.

In the past number of months of the current year has your Green movement (IT and corporate in general) made significant progress? For example perhaps progress relative to discerning Green fact from fiction. Ideally your efforts (and the efforts of many including hardware and other vendors) will increasingly bring about improved clarity and positive results that are progressively and continually more intrinsic and pervasive before, by and beyond 2020.

Thank you for all you do; and for helping the world increasingly become one on matters of high purpose. Green IT and beyond!

Earlier this year, Garner Inc. highlighted 10 key predictions that would affect IT and business decisions in 2008 and beyond. Three of the items on the list were:

• “By 2009, more than one-third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods.”
• “By 2010, 75 percent of organizations will use full lifecycle energy and CO₂ footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.”
• “By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to retain preferred supplier status.” ¹

(source)

Sep 7 2008   1:17PM GMT

Renewed hope for inspiration, imagination and dedication

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility

Looking back (e.g. potentially on billions of years since the earth was formed), and then looking forward to the future (e.g. to 2020 and beyond), perhaps you feel that open minds and doors that let in and increase things like awareness and stewardship have great potential to produce ingenuity successfully converted into better realities. Perhaps you also feel that by further enabling collaboration (e.g., between David and Goliath, or between individuals and large organizations), there can be renewed hope for inspiration, imagination and dedication to increasingly flourish.

Looking within the emerging formalized global IT profession, what innately do you see has the greatest potential to advance the quality of life for the global community?

Aug 30 2008   12:07AM GMT

How do you inspire desire and confidence?

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Social Responsibility

To reduce (or perhaps to ideally eliminate) risk from some perspective, or at some level, how do you inspire desire and confidence within C-levels and youth so that all more so say “I want to, and I can” increasingly be a catalyst and collaborative contributor to increasingly enhancing social responsibility from some dimension within the universe, our world, an organization, an individual, or perhaps even a product or service?

Organizational structure, processes, values, vision and behaviors may be among contributors to a culture for continual learning, employability skills development, knowledge transfer-development-management and on-going capability maturing; extending a positive mindset for ever increasing inherent quality is however the key to increasingly moving all to help towards a brighter and brighter future for the global community.

Find your purpose. Realize your value. Realize that you can help make a positive difference. Answer the question below and beam value inherently, intrinsically and pervasively, into the future. Thank you for doing so.

How do you inspire desire and confidence in others to exemplify goodness, and achieve greatness for their benefit and the benefit of all?

Enable Passion and Achievement to ever increasing degrees of quality, value, excellence and simplicity. Thank you for doing so.