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Heaven or Hell in Garden Eden? – A|HEAD|ahead’s year in review
Heaven or Hell in Garden Eden? – A|HEAD|ahead’s year in review 20DEC Another year went by too quickly, at least this is how it feels. Let’s put the question aside if this is because of getting older or simply because this year was filled with (too?) much work. Maybe...
Reporting for the ‘future we create’ – shaping next-generation transparency
Reporting for the ‘future we create’ – shaping next-generation transparency 18DEC Recently the report of the October 6/7 Reporting 3.0 Platform Conference ‘Reporting at the crossroads – ensuring purpose, practicability, performance’ was posted...
‚Unsubscribe dialog – subscribe collaboration’
‚Unsubscribe dialog – subscribe collaboration’ 31JUL To survive stakeholder dialog needs to transform to stakeholder collaboration and make use of new forms of IT This is the fourth and last installment of a blog series covering crucial sustainability reporting issues...
Comparability of sustainability information – slaughtered on the altar of materiality?
Comparability of sustainability information – slaughtered on the altar of materiality? 27MAY This is the third of four installments of a blog series covering crucial sustainability reporting issues on materiality, sustainability context, comparability and stakeholder...
The mindset gap in addressing sustainability context
The mindset gap in addressing sustainability context 13MAY This is the second of four installments of a blog series covering crucial sustainability reporting issues on materiality, sustainability context, comparability and stakeholder inclusiveness. Around two weeks...
The sudden ‚materiality shock’
The sudden ‚materiality shock’ 26APR This is the first of four installments of a blog series covering crucial sustainability reporting issues on materiality, sustainability context, comparability and stakeholder inclusiveness. Spring 2014 seems to be the moment in...
‘A journey to the North Stars’ – Ralph’s newest column in forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften (in German)
‘A journey to the North Stars’ – Ralph’s newest column in forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften (in German) 28JAN The latest column is following up on the column ‘Leaving the cuddly corner’ in forum edition 4 of 2013, clarifying what sustainable innovations really are, seen...
Recalibration of sustainability – welcome ‚ThriveAbility’
Recalibration of sustainability – welcome ‚ThriveAbility’ 13JAN The below article has been published in the January 2014 edition of the China Quality Magazine. This goes to more than 30.000 readers I’ve been told. I thank the editors of the China Quality Magazine for...
TEDxRSM: Ralph Thurm on ‘how to move from a global suicide pact to a thriving econonmy’
TEDxRSM: Ralph Thurm on ‘how to move from a global suicide pact to a thriving econonmy’ 16DEC November 2013 saw the first edition of TEDx at the Rotterdam School of Management. I was invited to speak due to my ideas about ThriveAbility that I am also teaching at...
Leaving the ‘cuddly corner’ – New column published in Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften (in German)
Leaving the ‘cuddly corner’ – New column published in Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften (in German) 05NOV This new column of ‘Der T(h)urmblick’ looks at our distorted picture of what we call ‘innovation’. Looking at it from a sustainability perspective, much of what we...