Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. This is where technology can save the day. Automation may be one of the most important solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates. One such is General Electric.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year. They equip employees with the right tools and training.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

In pursuit of this goal, I committed Desso to becoming 100% Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone.

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