One of the world’s leading business thinkers says companies need to retool their approach to profit by working with society to create “shared value,” and not regarding it as a costly “externality.” Michael Porter, the famed author of Competitive Strategy, says the business sector has become estranged from the rest of the community, even among those whoContinue reading “Rethinking business: time for “shared value””
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Open source status report reveals good health and profits
Over the last 15 years I have been an avid user and “developer” (actually more of a facilitator) of open source software. Having used all manner of open source software to run production systems (mainly applications running on Linux), I have participated in development communities that made open source tools to manage both free andContinue reading “Open source status report reveals good health and profits”