Twenty thirteen will be the year of the social license to operate (SLO).
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
The challenge for corporations is that a social license to operate is a subjective concept, not a piece of paper.
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
There are many more elements to SLO but all are derived from the same principle: your stakeholders write your social license.
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
However, where the government will not create such systems, industry can maintain its social license to operate by building such systems itself.
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As the New Year begins, you need to know why SLO has become so important and how your company can secure its social license.
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
In 2012 most corporations fell far short of the mark in the eyes of their stakeholders and ran the risk of losing their social license.
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
In order to secure a stronger social license to operate, corporations should build relationships with the organizations that have the most contrary points of view.
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
By using the most popular form of contemporary communication -- social media -- to bypass Shell's billions, our supporters undermined the company's social license to operate and brought global attention to its greed and willful ignorance of science.
Sinclair observes that through this process, Barrick has forged new relationships within the community, found renewed trust among local stakeholders, and perhaps not surprisingly, feels more confident about the state of its social license to operate as a result.
Recognizing that having social license to operate has become an imperative, I wanted to find out how corporate and civil society leaders are looking at this important issue and to develop ideas for what corporations should be doing differently in 2013.
FORBES: Three Ways to Secure Your Social License to Operate in 2013
You will need a drivers license, social security card, passport and birth certificate handy in order to fill out an application.
The fraudulent eBay site not only asks for users' eBay identification, password and email address but also credit card, bank account, drivers license and social security numbers.
Although user license agreements at social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn prevent Paterva from offering data searches involving social networking sites, the free version still has plenty of tools to give users a head start at finding interesting and "hidden" relationships.
On April 11, information provider Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier (nyse: RUK - news - people ), revealed that up to 310, 000 U.S. citizens may have had personal information stolen, including names, addresses, Social Security and drivers' license numbers.
Kinsley said the base was requesting each individual's full name, including middle initial, driver's license, and full social security number, in order for background checks to be performed before the race, compared with the standard procedure of first and last name and last four digits of one's social.
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According to investigators, there was no activity on Melisa Sloan's credit cards, bank accounts, Social Security number or driver's license.
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You'll see your credit cards, your driver's license and quite possibly something with your Social Security number on it.
"Never disclose sensitive details such as your social security number, passport or driver's license numbers, bank account information to prospective employers until you have established they are legitimate, " said the firm.
Since February, millions of Social Security numbers, bank account profiles and driver's license numbers have been stolen.
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According to McGoey, the key information these hijackers would have needed is Social Security numbers (often the unique identifier for business use), driver's license numbers, and date of birth or birth certificates.
That seems to be the question investors were looking to answer on Thursday as the embattled social gaming company saw its stock surge on news that it took the first steps to file for a gambling license in Nevada.
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