Those within large corporations have eagerly been spreading their operations around the globe to generate better profits from cheaper labour and decreasing shipping costs . A nice side effect for them has been the separation of the consumer from the production.  •  When a consumer is …

Peter pointed out earlier some inconsistencies in my posts about corporations. On one hand I said that corporations can’t care about anything. On the other I said that corporations consist of the people in them. What Peter was getting at, I think, is that if a corporation is full of people and …

Five years ago today silverorange officially incorporated. Not many small businesses last, let alone thrive, for this long. We are extremely lucky. A sincere thank you to all who have helped us get here. We're still having fun.

Corporations are structured like this(listed in order of power): Shareholders own the company. Shareholders appoint the board of directors. Board of Directors hire the executives. The Executives hire the staff.  •  Shareholders are the most powerful people within a corporation. Now, let's not get …

I work in a very small corporation. We have ten people. Sometimes though I'd swear there were eleven. There is this weird thing that happens once you start a corporation, no matter how small. You eventually start saying things like “it's not good for the company” and “It's the company's direction …

If you've read The Corporation, or have seen its sister film, you know that corporations (mainly large publicly traded firms) are legally constructed to pathologically pursue profit. What most common folk do not realize is that profit is the only end a corporation realizes. Goodness, fairness …

Over the past few months there have been a few things in the life of silverorange that, when they happened, I was going to blog. When I sat down to write about these events, lessons, and going ons, it turned out that I could not abstract the ideas and thoughts enough so that I felt comfortable …

Today the Nielsen Norman Group released the winners and accompanying report for their latest intranet design competition. We’re glad to say that the report, the Ten Best Government and Public Sector Intranet Designs, features a silverorange designed and built intranet.  •  The winning intranet …

Over the next few months I’m going to be inviting other CEOs (or prominent heads of companies) to make a contribution to CEOBlues. I’d like to do this by having a loose list of questions and allow them to respond to as many or as little as they’d like. I have a few individuals and questions in …