The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 12, 2020

As many of the extravagant claims around artificial intelligence have failed to materialize in the last few years, it’s tempting to regard the technology as having had a limited impact on the world. The technology also holds significant promise in terms of lifting people out of poverty and providing cleaner, more affordable energy.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The authors believe this is a particular risk in developing nations, where regulations are not as stringent, due in part to the desire for those nations to attract the leading technology firms. The technology also holds significant promise in terms of lifting people out of poverty and providing cleaner, more affordable energy.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Grumblers to Allies – Gain Support for Change With The Energy Bar™. Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance , returned to the show in October to discuss how to gain support for change, especially how to move people from being grumblers to becoming allies using a tool called The Energy Bar™. Guest: Rick Maurer.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2015

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. A recent Forbes article identified the Top 10 Business Trends That Will Drive Success In 2015. To use a golf analogy, not every shot is a long drive. Today’s Question.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

In a December 2015 Harvard Business Review article , three authors described the pitiful results of a survey of almost 700 executives. They save time, money, and energy. Larry Weidel is the author of Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success (Greenleaf, October 2015). To work, most systems have to be personal.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Mark Deterding of Triune Leadership Services explains where servant leaders focus their energy to lead a life of significant impact. Learn more about cultivating this mindset in “ Creative Innovation as a Leadership Mindset.”. Are You Living Your Leadership Life to the Fullest? Character of a Leader. Evan Sinar , Ph.D.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In parallel, in a fast-evolving, technology-rich marketplace, flexibility is essential and expertise is increasing its weighting relative to tenure with authority being assigned accordingly. She is the 2015-17 President of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).

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Fayol Press Release Scientific Management Drucker 191

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. Best Leadership Books of 2015. New skills will be needed. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We Her extensive knowledge and experience in information technology and cyber security adds a critical dimension to our advisory services practice and brings tremendous value to our clients.".

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

” Technology is a major driving of change and is changing very unpredictably as we see in these forecasts: Lee DeForest, the “father of radio,” said in 1926 “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

It means energy turning point. (We In this transformation, we are witnessing the decarbonization of power consumption, thanks to the large-scale deployment of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Setting the numbers aside, employers also expend a lot of time and energy in onboarding and training a new hire. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Used out of context, words become excuses, gibberish, rationales and basically wastes of energy. Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Words count. Consider leaving a comment!

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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. President to visit India twice.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. As the city lives the 21st Century, we celebrate the historical, utilize state-of-the art technology and reflect changing social needs will always be at the forefront of the future. We're more than a boom or a trend.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Scientists, per research program. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Most responses (80%) were received between October and December 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

A 2015 Gallup Poll found that Millennials are the least engaged cohort in the workplace, with only 28.9% A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business. saying that they are engaged at work. Millennials are digital natives.

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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.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Connected Homes are perhaps the clearest next proving ground for the IoT, combining both the potential to spawn new lines of products and services in areas such as security cameras and kitchen appliances, and the chance to reduce energy use and costs through smart thermostats and HVAC systems. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

days of vacation in 2015. In 2015 the unemployment rate was 5.3% (it was 9.7% in 1982), and yet 2015 had one of the lowest averages of time off taken in the past 30 years: 16.2 In a previous HBR article , we pointed out that the average vacation does not improve energy levels or reduce stress. How low will that number go?

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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%.

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Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It’s using this development to rapidly experiment with new technologies, policies, and financial systems. In fact, China is innovating at a city level , designating tens of cities at a time as pilots for every viable clean technology. As a curriculum development partner on sustainable development, my organization — the Joint U.S.-China

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Energy Policies Innovation Training 9

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

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. This will provide real time information about driving obstacles to improve driver safety.

Transportation 8

Transportation Content Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

It’s that lure that brings in eager migrants from all over the country, and when they arrive they find not only the fun-loving and diversity-embracing culture they’ve heard so much about, but also the newfound energy that’s characterized a city determined not to fade into history.

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Real Estate Transportation Price Education 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

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

degrees Celsius, all countries — rich and poor — need to rapidly transition to a low-carbon economy powered by renewable energy. M-PESA is now enabling other disruptive business models in sectors like energy. Climate change is a clear and present danger to all of humanity. To keep the rise of global temperatures below 1.5

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

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. For example, the global energy player ENGIE and its local partners apply it in the independent power production business in the Middle East.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 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.

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