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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. The annual demand for tactile robots is doubling, and by 2020, the market for robots will be nearly 10 times what it was in 2010. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

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How Reducing Gender Inequality Could Boost U.S. GDP by $2.1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 trillion in value per year, and it isn’t included in GDP.)

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We Can’t Undo Globalization, but We Can Improve It

Harvard Business Review

Between 1980 and 2007, cross-border trade and financial flows grew tenfold in nominal terms. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010. For example, less than 1% of the nearly 30 million registered U.S.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. From 1998 to 2007, earnings for a US worker with a BA rose only 0.34% adjusted for inflation.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. 1m1m.sramanamitra.com.