When we interviewed him in New York, we asked Fortune magazine publisher Mike Federle if it would be fair to characterize Fortune people as “cheerleaders” for business. He was quick to reject this label and insist that they are observers and analysts of both the good and the bad in the business world. Our judgment …
MANY, THOUGH NOT ALL, OF THE IBTE CONVERSATIONS in Ethix over the past four years have been with corporate insiders and leaders. We have found these subjects to be remarkably candid and self-critical, for the most part. We have never hesitated to ask hard questions or felt any pressure from these people not to do …
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, we visited New York City in mid-May to interview Anne Taylor, Managing Partner with Deloitte & Touche. Even after the eight months since the tragic events, we were moved, seeing the landscape in person rather than through television images. “Ground Zero” was just a large hole in …
A BRILLIANT TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION combined with outstanding entrepreneurial business leadership … is still not enough to make a successful business. Money is the essential third component. The booming economy of Silicon Valley in recent decades was enabled by investors wise enough to pick more winners than losers and courageous enough to take calculated financial risks. …
Banks and other financial institutions play a key role in any business. And like all other businesses, banks have undergone profound changes in the past two decades, largely because of technology. John Reed lived through these changes, driving many of them, during his 35-year career at Citibank. He was at the forefront of ATM development, …
When we started getting serious about a discussion of technology and its impact on business in our times, we agreed to read a couple books recommended by each other. David recommended that Al read Jacques Ellul’s Technological Bluff and Neil Postman’s Technopoly. Al recommended that David read Hammer and Champy’s Reengineering the Corporation and Don …
Welcome to an expanded Ethix, bringing more voices to the discussion table. For example, this issue includes a sort of virtual “round table” discussion on the need for education reform. Most of today’s interesting and important problems are cross-disciplinary in nature and are best approached by teams — yet our universities maintain traditional disciplinary boundaries and a …
Ethix & IBTE Enter Fourth Year This issue — Ethix 19 — is the first in our fourth year of bimonthly publication. A great deal has changed over these three years, and significant changes are planned for the coming year. In October 1998, we produced our first issue and mailed it to 150 of our …
by Albert M. Erisman and David W. Gill IBTE Links CEOs, Techies, Critics The Institute for Business, Technology, and Ethics (IBTE) exists to promote the transformation of business through appropriate technology and ethical values. Why do we believe this is a critical need today? Advances in technology, particularly information technology, have created change in every …
