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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

Tech support The researchers analyzed the various trends that are driving emissions in the 59 countries where emissions grew faster than average between 2010 and 2018 (although they notably excluded India and China from their analysis). The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1%

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Making The Cloud Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

This is highlighted by the fact that despite the volume of work done by data centers rising by 500% between 2010 and 2018, energy consumption only grew by 6%. The servers were initially installed in 2018 and were connected to land by cable. The sector has made considerable strides in recent years to become more energy efficient.

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

“We needed the metrics because we wanted to start the Stepping Up programme (a social enterprise that trains and develops diverse leaders from all protected groups in the Equality Act 2010), but it was going to be at a cost to the Council. So we had to demonstrate the benefits in a business case,” she explains.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being the founder of an innovative product or service requires holistic thinking, taking into account all aspects of what makes a new venture successful—from its value proposition to the customer (user), product development, technologies, cost to deliver, performance metrics and finally to getting the resources needed for implementation.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

There are four essential elements to the formula: revenues, cost structure, margins, and resource velocity. For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010.

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Lose those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better

The Practical Leader

billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. This year, the cost of new wind and solar generation dropped below the costs of coal and nuclear energy. Prices for battery packs have dropped 87% since 2010. Global rates of measles have dropped by 2/3 from 2000 to 2018. Coals shipments in the U.S.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

Organizations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield have used their considerable databases about chronically ill people to target and influence their care, reducing to some extent the total cost of care, much of which is concentrated in helping a small portion of their total consumer base.