Category: Societal impacts
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ESG: A Moral and Survival Imperative
In a previous essay, I declared ESG to be a crock. The message was adorned with a lovely illustration intimating a poop emoji. I stand by it but believe an elaboration is required. Relatively fewer readers picked up on the defeated futility in the assessment than those who sincerely piled on to declare ESG a…
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ESG: A Full Crock to be Balanced Carefully
Introduction Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors have gained significant traction as a benchmark for evaluating corporate responsibility and sustainability. While its proponents herald ESG’s potential to drive positive change, let’s critically examine its efficacy and address the fundamental challenges that render it doomed to failure. In fact, one only has to consider the…
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Social Transformation: Will It End Well?
There has been significant social transformation of the West in recent years. Here is some evidence to support this claim: Changing attitudes towards social issues One of the most significant social transformations of recent years is the change in public attitudes towards social issues such as same-sex marriage, gender identity, and racial justice.…
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A Good Decarbonization Transition (2023)
The realist in me says that this transformation is and has been happening for a decade or more. Irrespective of any ecological and/or existential direness, which is debated hotly, the transition trajectory is probably consistent with other major transformations. We have, however, with specific focus on consumer products, especially those sexy things attached…
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Who says government can’t innovate?
In fact, we’d be lost without it. Op-Ed article printed in The Ottawa Citizen The New York Times carried a story earlier this month, Energy Idea for Mars Yields a Clue for Powering Data Centers, that accidentally challenges a common private-sector saw that government can’t innovate. Not only can it, we would be lost without it.…
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NAFTA digital trigger
Investing in deeper digital transformation may be the best NAFTA gift to the business NAFTA may or may not survive 2018. To prepare for its failure, Canadian businesses have investment in digital transformation for the productivity gains needed to compete successfully. If NAFTA is successfully renegotiated, the digital productivity gains will make Canadian businesses stronger…
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Digital Transactionality
Why Relationships and Everything Else is Different The transactionality (in personal relationships) that has exploded since the mid-nineties is the natural, if not expected result of exponentially expanding digitization. If the decaying state of interpersonal connection is a bellwether for other critical consequences of digital transformation, understanding it may provide the perspective to foresee the…
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Prepare for Quantum Business
Sweat the small stuff… The shift from analog to digital is just now truly transforming business. Today’s discontinuous digital reinvention acknowledges that the mechanical innards must be ripped out and replaced. What’s coming will make the new economy disruptions seem quaint. The calculus of digital means we have to continually sweat the small stuff.. What…
