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Richard Telofski is a competitive strategy analyst. Specializing in anti-corporate activism, he examines the actions of "irregular competitors" (i.e., activists and NGOs) and how those organizations impact business from within online and offline media.  |
In the digital world, most everyone keeps their eye out for what will be the “next big thing.” Usually it’s a technology, either hardware or software. Lately Google’s been hitting it hard and heavy on the forecasted next big thing stage, Google Wave and Droid. But I’ve been thinking lately that the next big thing in [...] In my previous post, “Who Is Really Behind the Walmart Sustainability Index? – Part 1,” we began looking at the real reason why Walmart would want to initiate the Walmart Sustainability Index (WSI), an ecological product ranking that the company wants attached to products sold in their stores. To catch you up before [...] This is the first post in my newly created Ideas category. This category will contain very brief posts addressing random insights that occur to me, well, randomly. I’m jotting them down here because this is a web log, after all. And I’d like to keep track of them for possible incorporation into a future book or article. [...] In July 2009, Walmart introduced their initiation, support, and funding of the new Walmart Sustainability Index. What is the Walmart Sustainability Index (WSI)? Briefly, the WSI is intended to be a ranking of the ecological efficiency of manufactured products. Factors that go into calculating a product’s ecological efficiency are things like [...] Does the Greenpeace CEO make more than the Exxon Mobil CEO? Well, yes and no. In terms of absolute dollars, no. Not even close. But, in terms of a percentage of their respective organization’s revenue, yes. More. Very much more. In terms of compensation as a percentage of revenue, the Greenpeace CEO pulls in considerably more than [...] From much of my reading, I can see that the power of the NGO (non-governmental organization) is increasing. With regard to how that power affects business, my research shows that over the past decade NGO-influenced corporations are now becoming the norm rather than the exception. And from the projections I’ve read, it appears that that [...] Today I came across an interesting idea in World Out of Balance by Paul Laudicina. Yes, I’ve mentioned this book before. It’s been a while since last mentioned and that’s because I’m reading it slowly. This one I read while I Nordic Track in the morning, so I might do only about ten pages at [...] |
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