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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this growth, the researchers don’t believe the investment is sufficient to meet the Paris commitments, and argue that it would need to have doubled between 2010 and 2020 to have made a meaningful impact. They’re also cautious about the ability of international cooperation to continue driving things forward.

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The 2020 Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies, Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd Harper Business/An im print of HaroerCollins (2010) How and why the HR function has become so much more important than many (most?)

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

Strategy Driven

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. Although it is difficult to communicate across companies and coordinate, getting your own team to cooperate on matters of cost is a lot easier. Automate Everything.

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A $10 Trillion Bet on China and India

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report predicting that the economy of China will rebound and grow 8.5% Specifically, we have calculated that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will consume some $64 trillion in goods and services. in 2013 and 8.9%

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Migration Down 30 Percent Due To Covid

The Horizons Tracker

This amounts to roughly two million fewer people migrating between 2019 and 2020 than ordinarily expected. This represents a rise from 221 million in 2010 and 173 million in 2000. “Flows of remittances to low- and middle-income countries are projected to decline in 2020 compared to pre-COVID-19 levels.”

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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. Data Under Siege An HBR Insight Center.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. To reach the finish line together takes incredible patience and cooperation. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!)