The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2021

The study finds that while virtual conferences do significantly reduce the carbon footprint of events, they come with environmental costs of their own. The framework includes factors such as the energy use of the servers to the manufacturing of the computers involved. Server energy usage. Monitor energy usage.

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Conference Energy Software Video 112

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2022

Homeworking leaped from around 5% pre-Covid to 47% during April 2020. ” While consuming digital resources, such as video conferencing, burns a considerable amount of energy in data centers, the researchers argue that the net impact is still positive, with Zoom calls emitting just 0.6% Environmental gains. A mixed picture.

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Travel Energy Environment Trends 97

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was. The researchers explain that this claim only really held water if the only inputs were those associated with traditional workplaces, such as energy costs or office space.

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Productivity Products GDP Survey 104

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2020

Solar energy is one of the best investments you can make for your business. According to Geo Green Power , specialists in large-scale commercial solar panel arrays, generating your own solar energy will significantly reduce your carbon footprint, increase your company’s sustainable credentials and improve your business reputation.

Energy 65

Energy Efficiency Document Technology 65

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 19, 2021

The researchers spoke to participants throughout June 2020 to understand their perceptions of the pandemic and the actual impact it was having on their lives. There were different constraints on the way people allocated their time, energy and money that did not necessarily lead to negative consequences.”.

Stress 86

Stress Constraint Energy Travel 86

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us—and use the energy that accompanies pressure to thrive. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. Blog Post ). It also undermines long-term business performance.

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Books Leadership Open-book Wiseman 453

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2022

The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was. The researchers explain that this claim only really held water if the only inputs were those associated with traditional workplaces, such as energy costs or office space.

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GDP Analysis Productivity Products 59

Experience to Lead

MARCH 17, 2022

As the effects of the pandemic come to light and organizational resources are more finite than ever before, leaders are looking closely at these metrics to justify the cost of development programs. Nicastro 2020). In this article, we will explore some of the opportunities that come with redefining ROI in your organization.

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ROI P&L Development Metrics 52

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 4, 2023

The New York based, independent health care research organization, The Commonwealth Fund, estimates COVID vaccinations between December 2020 and November 2022 prevented 18.5 trillion in medical costs in the US. Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022. additional hospitalizations, 3.2

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Newsletter Crisis Health Care Positioning 59

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

A few years later, in 2020, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments was published! These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation. You may have to cut costs dramatically. How did it start? Fire people.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 105

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’. One of our values, “reimagining the possible,” is at the heart of our culture and is an obvious imperative in the digital innovation economy of the 21st century. The HR Digest: PwC is said to have a passionate work culture fit for the industry’s most driven workers.

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Short-term Long-term Diversity Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare.

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Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

By the end of 2020, over 40% of the global population will be 24 and younger, with the first crop emerging from college now, making up 5% (and counting) of the workforce 6. While seniority is no longer a key factor in promotion, they are more likely than millennials to have poured years and energy into their current employer.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Situational Leadership Globalization 40

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Navy announced it would source roughly half of its energy from alternative sources by 2020. Since then, the Navy has launched a number of innovative green projects, such as switching some Marine forward bases in Afghanistan from fossil fuels to solar power. Then connect green to cost savings. Enough said. Enough said.

Energy 12

Energy Cost Budgeting Project 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Cost-conscious consumers can access incredibly affordable, often inventive solutions.

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event. The common fundamental ingredients for success identified by the speakers were: resilience, agility, creativity, innovation, care, evolution, enthusiasm, and passion.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

If there’s one constant in 2020, it’s change. If you think you don’t have time for it, ask yourself: What is not paying attention costing you? It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from. If you’re going to be curious, there are a couple of big costs to pay. The second cost is ego.

Leadership 105

Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 105

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. Renewables are growing faster than any other kindof of power generation, with more solar panels installed in the U.S.

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

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. The cost of sensors, processing power, and bandwidth to connect devices has dropped low enough to spur widespread deployment. In Europe there is a target for 80% of households to have smart meters by 2020.

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

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.

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Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil. One note of caution.

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Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The money collected will go to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets , allowing Microsoft to declare itself carbon neutral. Microsoft seems more interested in lowering overall carbon emissions and energy use, not just neutrality in and of itself. Accountability throughout the organization. Risk reduction.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

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Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

What the White House called "doubling down on" clean energy. Improving energy efficiency standards for things like appliances and federal buildings, a worthy follow up to the aggressive auto fuel efficiency standards passed last year. Carbon-based energy will be more expensive and clean energy will be cheaper.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 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. GM wanted 100 landfill-free (“zero waste”) manufacturing sites by 2020. It’s brave.

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk.

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Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

This includes a new open innovation program that encourages ideas to reduce greenhouse gases from Canadian oil sands production — the same controversial, greenhouse-gas-heavy source of fossil fuels that environmental groups are fighting against when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline. In truth, ecomagination is all of these and more.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Last week PwC released its Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 report, which calculated one simple, powerful number: In order to meet the 2°C warming target, we will need to reduce the global carbon intensity (how much carbon it takes to produce every unit of energy or GDP) by 5.1% 260 billion : Global clean energy investment in 2011.

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McKinsey GDP Cost-Benefit Analysis Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. The resulting chaos in Europe''s energy and environmental policies is threatening carbon-reduction initiatives in Australia, Asia, and elsewhere. Exceeding them.

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Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

For example, we’re working to achieve water neutrality by 2020. So far, we’ve replaced 52% of the water we use in making our beverages and reducing water usage across our 800-plus bottling plants helps reduce the overall cost of production. We have also committed to economically empowering 5 million women by 2020.

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CEO Supply Chain Operations Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Mega weather took many lives and cost over $120 billion in the U.S. Individual companies are feeling the bite: analysts at Morningstar estimate that input costs at Tyson Foods will rise by $700 million — more than its 2012 net income. It wasn't just energy. alone ( $50 billion for the drought , $71 billion for Sandy ).

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories. At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows.

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Technology Resources Industry Energy 8