What is Data Capture?
Any process for converting information into a form that can be handled by a computer.
What is a Learning Organisation?
A learning organisation is one that facilitates the learning of its members in order to continuously improve, innovate and remain competitive.
What is an Environmental Profit & Loss Account?
In 2011, PUMA established an Environmental Profit & Loss Account (E P&L) and were the first company to do so. They notes that operations and supply chain depend on nature for services such as fresh water, clean air, healthy biodiversity and productive land. The PUMA E P&L is the first attempt to measure the immense value of these services to the business, and the true costs of their business’s impacts on nature by placing a monetary value on them along the entire value chain. Read more.
What is a stakeholder?
Anyone with an interest in a business or its products and services, such as: Employees, Customers, Suppliers, Business Partners, Neighbours, Government, and Regulators etc.
What is Digitalisation?
Digitisation is the process of moving what you did offline online. [Source: Dave Aron, vice president and Gartner Fellow.]
Further reading (for fun): Tom Davenport – what the heck is digitization anyway?
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