Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Escalating healthcare costs — due in part to the explosion of chronic diseases among Americans — are expected to account for 20% of U.S. GDP by 2020. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits. Trade shows generate sales leads at a lower cost per contact than a typical sales call. Research shows that industrial sales calls costing $252 to reach a prospect, with 4.6

How To 50

How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17%). Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Research shows they can be cut in half.

Mentor 50

Mentor Consultative Strategic Planning Entrepreneur 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. A digitally-skilled workforce is vital to help deploy advanced digital technologies that can streamline and automate grid operations. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Let’s look at three investments — in wages, time and energy — that could reinvigorate the productivity cycle: Wages. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By the time of the Paris climate meeting in 2015, which resulted in the more robust global agreement now supported by every country in the world except the United States, it was clear that we needed to consider a more ambitious target, 1.5°C Embrace renewable energy. Set science-based carbon reduction targets for operations.

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010. The program delivered $1.6

Power 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

Energy 8

Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What are the costs and benefits of self-disruption at that uncertain stage? electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one. These are rarely studied questions. A rare natural experiment. and international electric utilities.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This translates into savings because the company spends less on wages and other labor-related costs. Starting with the quarter ending March 31, 2015 , however, S&P 500 earnings began falling, and earnings growth has remained negative ever since. Inspired employees bring more discretionary energy to their work every day.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

shale revolution will be difficult to replicate, but traditional oil producers like Saudi Arabia are diversifying into shale-gas production and other forms of renewable energy so that they can diversify their energy mix and continue to export oil in spite of their soaring domestic demand for power. Energy Information Administration.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. A leapfrog effect will mean that three of every four Net users will do so by 2015. Part of what's fueling growth in Net penetration is an explosion in mobility.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. Costs are low because each school has just one employee, who uses a tablet with tailored content.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

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. Statoil , a Scandinavian energy company, launched a climate and energy program in 2011 that nominates 10 senior executives to take part in a year-long program.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. It also leads to a more positive work climate, above-average staff engagement, a strong commitment to values and few(er) energy-sapping turf wars and in-fighting.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. More people means increased consumption of valuable resources such as water and energy, and further burdening already aging and stressed infrastructure. Cities around the world are getting bigger, fast.

Gilbert 8

Gilbert System Price Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. The platform brings wind, solar and other renewable energy producers — even individual homes equipped with solar panels — into the same ecosystem. Tom Watson, Jr. ” 6.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Time is a finite resource, but energy is not. In each, energy can be systematically expanded and regularly renewed.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. The United Nations reports that the world population is expected to grow from 7.6 billion to 9.8

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

A surprising number reach for deep changes in the world, going well beyond the expected and narrower kind of goals like “reduce energy use 10%.” The company has been developing vehicles that help the world meet its carbon reduction goals, including most prominently the 2015 F-150 truck.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Our accustomed modes of thinking are straitjackets constraining the human energy and creativity these tools could unleash. This is a situation that cannot endure.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Social life and the operation of organizations increasingly leave more or less permanent data traces, like the contrails left by jets. ” that originally appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, June 2015, Vol. ” — the questions we would ask about other kinds of constructions.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. Standard operating procedures fail because the situations are by definition nonstandard. In 2015, the price of oil dropped dramatically. The teams attacked the cost base from multiple angles.

Agility 11

Agility Team Crisis Operations 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. At all costs, fight change.in The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Do successful corporations operate without a strategy-vision? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. For tens of thousands of fossil fuel workers, though, the energy industry outlook is not promising. For coal industry workers, the future looks particularly bleak.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day.

Decentralization 10

Decentralization System Technology Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This is the exclusive, short story of how Diageo North America, with creativity and guts, both in operations and in the senior ranks, achieved the holy grail of carbon emissions reductions. First, for perspective, they ran the numbers on what it might cost to go entirely carbon free.

Globalization 8

Globalization Cost Bottom-up Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

With production costs rising in China, some companies are bringing their manufacturing back to the U.S. With labor costs rising rapidly in China, it will become even more advantageous to make things in America for America, in the years ahead. to China had slowed down, and in some cases, is operating in reverse.

Cost 13

Cost Report Marketing Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Excluding smaller-scale bombing attacks of police and military targets, the airport bombing has been the 11th mass civilian casualty terrorist incident in Turkey since June 2015, leaving more than 250 civilians dead. The country is suffering from a substantial decline in tourism ( down 23% compared to the first five months of 2015 ).

Tourism 10

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India plans to catalyze $200-300 billion of new investment in renewable energy infrastructure over the next decade. Consider two success stories in India’s consumer economy: Amazon and Renault’s ultra low-cost Kwid car. In two short years, Kwid gained 15% of the market.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. These and many more challenges and the struggle for energy efficiency inspired world mining leaders a few years ago to launch a large-scale process of updating their mining facilities. million ounces of gold.

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Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87