The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2020

After many hours of researching books, articles, and websites, let’s kick off 2020 with what’s become my annual New Year’s blog on how the world keeps getting better, and better, and better, and better… This tradition started six years ago with “ A Dose of Reality: Our World is Dramatically Better.”

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

A few years later, in 2020, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments was published! For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. -Daniel Kahneman. What was most surprising to you in studying the research into experimentation?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Susanna Camp is a journalist specializing in emerging technology. In The Entrepreneur ’s Faces , we chronicle the Stanford Launchpad accelerator where the professors challenge students to raise money fast, with energy and intensity. You may have to cut costs dramatically. Those who clung to their 2020 plans floundered.

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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 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Part of that effort is for each team to create a plan for how they will manage their energy and well-being. These are enablers for driving speed, value and lower cost for clients. A version of this interview appeared in the October 2020 issue (p. PHOTO: PwC. 54) of The HR Digest. .

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. Let's look at each of them in more detail. Microprocessors. Wireless Connectivity.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

If there’s one constant in 2020, it’s change. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. If you think you don’t have time for it, ask yourself: What is not paying attention costing you? If you’re going to be curious, there are a couple of big costs to pay. The second cost is ego.

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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. has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. The repercussions span industries and regions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

European Leaders Rethink Their Commitment to Renewable Energy Sources (Oxford Analytica). EU governments are scaling down their support for renewable energy as the costs of increasing its usage rise, report the experts at Oxford Analytica. IT'S NOT MY FAULT: THE TPS REPORTS GOT CAUGHT IN THE SPAM FILTER.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.”

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C). coal market.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk. also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.). Another report, the U.S. Unilever U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. 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.

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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.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

The resulting chaos in Europe''s energy and environmental policies is threatening carbon-reduction initiatives in Australia, Asia, and elsewhere. This has drastically reduced the incentives for them to invest in or deploy clean-energy technologies or to modernize their energy-infrastructure assets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

From connected cars, iPhone-controlled locks (versions of which here, here, and here are in or close to production), to the hypothetical "smart fridge" that will one day order milk for me when I''ve run out, these technologies bring with them the promise of energy efficiency, convenience, and flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. 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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

GE always kept the program broad, including both flashier, clearly green products like wind turbines, and also more industrial, behind-the-scenes offerings such as energy-efficient motors. Global Communications Leader Gary Sheffer posed this question: “Who’s doing more research on renewable energy in the world than GE?”

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. The adoption of robotics, internet-of-things technology, and data analytics — along with macroeconomic trends and changing consumer behavior — are fundamentally transforming the way resources are consumed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Meister, a founding partner of Future Workplace, a human resources consultancy and the coauthor of The 2020 Workplace. Generation-based employee affinity groups are a waste of time and energy, he adds. It’s a low cost way to get a pulse on generational career issues,” says Meister. Here’s how. Don’t dwell on differences.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

the technology research and advisory company. Inexpensive sensors, for example, can reduce the energy wasted in street lights or regulate the flow of water to better preserve resources. Several cities have adopted smart technologies, applying artificial intelligence to accelerate their transition into the future. An estimated 2.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. By 2009, however, Verizon had scaled back plans for more fiber and DSL technology was falling behind improvements in cable. Construction costs fell, and the speed of deployments increased.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

Survey-based reports find that firms are currently spending an estimated $36 billion on storage and infrastructure, and that is expected to double by 2020. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. Predictive maintenance.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

The use of automation technology is rapidly changing the landscape of various industries, mostly in the labor-intensive sectors. Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. It’s difficult to overlook the benefits of autonomous technologies in the mining industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. These things are not theoretical and are costing business and society today. The economics are too good. And, most critical, this economic reality holds even without subsidies.

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