In your research, you’ve found a number of likely solutions to corporate data losses and insider theft, like putting rules at the perimeter to prevent sensitive data from leaving the network or locking down individual documents. Better yet, you can even lock down physical devices and memory cards so that if they are stolen, at least the data residing on them will be inaccessible.
Virtually all large enterprises are conscious of the image they project, and corporate responsibility is an important part of that image. Green technologies represent an opportunity for corporations that extends beyond brand reputation and can affect overall profitability. In its 2007 list of “20 Most Admired Companies,” Fortune magazine noted that “many of the Most Admired Companies are busy figuring out ways to think green and garner more greenbacks too.”1
Xcel Energy’s business strategy has multiple components, including a focus on our customers, people and communities. Our strategy of delivering reliable energy is complimented by our commitment to find the most environmentally feasible methods of meeting the energy demands of our customers. One area of opportunity revolves around the concept of a smart grid. While the industry has various definitions of a smart grid and there are multiple efforts underway that are called “smart grid,” we believe the opportunity to develop a fully inter-connected system allowing customers to automatically manage their energy consumption and enabling Xcel Energy to reliably produce and deliver that energy through real-time, automated controls is now available.
That’s the first thing I said to myself when I first discovered the social media platform Twitter. I can easily recall thinking “Oh great, another social media site,” as I didn’t quite understand what Twitter was or what value it provided to me and my business. According to Wikipedia, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.” Even though I thought the cross between instant messaging and blogging as a communication tool was an interesting idea (and the fact the updates even show up on your phone), I still remained skeptical about using Twitter as I questioned “Why would anyone be interested in knowing what I’m doing every second of the day?” So for months I left Twitter untouched.