Abstract: This invention relates to the creation of a framework and process for improving organizational performance through the adoption and implementation of social responsibility standards by public or private organizations. This invention relates to the configuration of computer software applications that coordinate and perform specific business or organizational process functions that assist in the implementation of the social responsibility standards and process improvements. The invention includes a description of the positioning of the software applications as well as the composition of general data flows between the computer applications and actors implementing the social responsibility standards and monitoring the effects. By following the steps outlined in the process flow described below, an organization will embed standards and norms in a manner that i. will improve its performance ii. enable it to achieve performance objectives iii.

Abstract: A method of operating a computer to facilitate a commercial transaction involving a plurality of negotiable trading parameters.

Abstract: A method of facilitating an e-commerce transaction, the method including: providing a set of trading parameters; accepting in respect of a first entity (3) a desired trading profile including desired values or ranges of multiple of said trading parameters; and accepting in respect of said first entity (3) one or more further trading profiles including values or ranges of multiple of said trading parameters; establishing one or more functional relationships between variations in a key trading parameter and one or more other of said trading parameters; wherein each of said further trading profiles are equivalent in desirability or expected value to said desired trading profile, and said functional relationship can be used to determine a set of equivalent trading profiles having substantially desirability equal expected values equivalent to said desired trading profile and said further trading profiles.