Green Project Management

APRIL 27, 2016

What is the difference between CSR and Sustainability? I get asked this question a lot and so I thought it would be good to provide a clear and concise response. Here is an explanation of both. Sustainability balances resource usage and supplies over time thus ensuring that future generations will have the resources that we do. […]. The post Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain!

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 11, 2016

April 11th, 2016 – Today, the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Association announced a strategic collaboration on sustainable development as the United Nations enters the first year of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Jeffrey Cheah Foundation’s $10 million gift – the largest financial commitment to date focused on SDG education and implementation since nearly 200 members of the UN adopted the 17 goals last Se

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 6, 2016

Every marketplace and industry is currently going through a digital transformation. The days of having a “wait and see” approach in business are over. Your brand along with your products and services will need to continually evolve to remain relevant in a world dominated by increasing digital disruption. The word disruption often conjures negative connotations.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 22, 2016

Renowned experts from academia, administration, international organizations and civil society attended this year’s collaboration in the Caixaforum, engaging in an active debate around the measurability and the monitoring of progress towards Agenda 2030. The opening session was led by María Cortés Puch, for the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), along with María Larrea, Deputy Director General for Development Policy of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, a

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 17, 2016

On April 14 and 15 the University of Siena, Italy, hosted a meeting of the 15-member Plastic Busters Project consortium to evaluate past success and plan future work. Project highlights to date include receiving financial support from GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), the unanimous endorsement of the initiative by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), and achieving the prestigious UfM label in February 2016.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 11, 2016

April 11th, 2016 – Today, the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Association announced a strategic collaboration on sustainable development as the United Nations enters the first year of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Jeffrey Cheah Foundation’s $10 million gift – the largest financial commitment to date focused on SDG education and implementation since nearly 200 members of the UN adopted the 17 goals last Se

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 13, 2016

Artificial intelligence (AI), one of 20 core technologies I identified back in 1983 as the drivers of exponential economic value creation, is rapidly working its way into our lives from Amazon’s Alexa and Facebook’s M, to Google’s Now and Apple’s Siri. An example of how far AI has come is the recent news that a Google supercomputer, using its advanced AI software, was able to win a stunning 3-0 victory in a man vs. machine face-off against Go grandmaster , one of the game’s all-time champi

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 27, 2016

Bank notes and silver coins are starting to feel incredibly primitive or quaint at best to an increasing number of shoppers. Many are happier using their credit or debt card for both their online and offline purchases. Now that the U.S. has joined Europe and other nations by requiring a chip-in-card system, the pressure is on technology to increase security and at the same time replace other annoyances from our past such as PINs and the dreaded passwords. . 53% of us forget crucial passwords mor

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 27, 2016

On April 26, 2016, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Great Lakes (SDSN GL) held a conference in Kigali, Rwanda, on “ Regional Solutions to Achieve the SDGs.” The network Chair, Prof. Murty S. Kopparthi, opened with a presentation of SDSN GL’s first call for proposals for Solutions Initiatives (SIs), launched at the July 2015 conference (see presentation #1 below).

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