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

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. Low-cost Indian repair and maintenance crews can tune up the equipment at night.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). There is time, technology, and will to avoid this fate, but the clock is ticking.

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

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

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The cost of sensors, processing power, and bandwidth to connect devices has dropped low enough to spur widespread deployment. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 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 8, 2016

But New Orleans offers both culture and an affordable cost of living. ” According to a CNN Money cost of living calculator using December 2015 figures from the Council for Community and Economic Research, the cost of housing in San Francisco is 227% higher than in New Orleans, groceries cost 25% more, and transportation costs 33% more.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Transportation Price Education 8

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. °C (3.8°F) °C (2.7°F). Getting to 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

based shale oil producers have improved their drilling and fracturing technology, and they can ramp up production in an appraised field in as few as six months at a small fraction of the capital investment required by their conventional rivals. Energy Information Administration. crude oil production to about 50%.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

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. Alternatively, cities can use technology as a force multiplier.

Gilbert 8

Gilbert System Price Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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 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

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In our research on how middle managers sell their ideas up the chain of command ( which we describe in the January-February 2015 issue of HBR ), we’ve found that those who do so most successfully are the ones who manage emotions on both sides. In our study, an engineering manager at an energy company did this especially well.

Engineering 11

Engineering Tactics Influence Middle Management 11

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. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. billion to 9.8 In the U.S.,

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 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. 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.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

are at the lowest levels in almost 40 years, while American clean energy jobs grew by 110,000 last year. This year, the cost of new wind and solar generation dropped below the costs of coal and nuclear energy. Global malaria mortality has dropped by 60% between 2000 and 2015. Coals shipments in the U.S.

Globalization 94

Globalization Report Energy Sample 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork. Tom Watson, Jr.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Throughout the workday, it’s important to pay attention to the peaks and valleys of energy and productivity that we all experience, what health psychologists call our ultradian (hourly) as opposed to our circadian (daily) rhythms. Develop mental agility. And companies stand to benefit from a more resilient workforce.

Stress 14

Stress Agility Globalization Energy 14

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 9, 2016

Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? In 2015 we started to engage those clinical departments whose providers saw patients with conditions requiring frequent follow-up visits and infrequent physical exams, and who lived in Massachusetts but had difficulty coming into the office.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1 Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. ” Managing its waste, which once cost GM billions of dollars a year, now makes the company more than $1 billion annually.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

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. The performance penalty may be manifest in poor customer attraction and retention, higher-than-expected costs, organizational dysfunctions, or simple financial underperformance.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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. But it just hasn’t happened.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S. Most people jumping onto the solar bandwagon at this point are doing it for the cost savings.

Technology 8

Technology Energy System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

A preview of this is the Enron email archive, containing about one-half million e-mails from 150 senior managers of Enron, which was made public by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during its investigations and subsequently cleaned and shared by researchers. For the Winchester Mystery House, the act of building was an end in itself.

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

At all costs, fight change.in That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Neither attends to details nor to pursue a Big Picture. Do little or nothing.

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

the technology research and advisory company. The number of attacks on critical infrastructure jumped from under 200 in 2012 to almost 300 attacks in 2015. Inexpensive sensors, for example, can reduce the energy wasted in street lights or regulate the flow of water to better preserve resources. An estimated 2.3 Insight Center.

Decentralization 10

Decentralization System Technology Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

What we know is that after $28 billion spent in federal incentives to spur adoption and with 8 out of 10 physicians now using an EHR, physician frustration with their technology platforms is at an all-time high. They understand that switching to a common technology platform is essential for achieving quality goals.

How To 8

How To Health Care Insurance Technology 8

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. The third factor is that India’s problems cannot be solved without leveraging technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2013, Johnson Controls invited developers to help them build Panoptix, an energy efficiency platform for buildings and office space. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to share the surplus.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8