The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A new paper from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) explored some of the psychology behind economic decision-making that might have contributed to our decision to hoard items. Often this can be fairly well reasoned, and doing so allows us to take mental short-cuts that save us time and energy.

Short-term 97

Short-term Bond Policies Stress 97

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Technology has taken over your lives. As per the reports of 2020, over 30 billion smart devices are connected to the internet. Before choosing one, you must pay attention to the kind of technologies and the cost to invest. It can even connect to low-energy sensors.

Process 90

Process Software Learning-by-Doing Development 90

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. Make sure they have a genuine interest in your market and learn key details about their successes.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 107

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.

Energy 8

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 8

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. This cuts down electricity by avoiding vampire energy. Microprocessors.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Let''s examine one specific aspect of Otis Elevator, a unit of the Top 100 innovator United Technologies Corp. Its Gen2 "machine-room-less" product replaced woven ropes with flat polyurethane-coated steel belts for savings in noise, energy consumption, and space, eliminating the traditional rooftop "machine room."

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

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. The repercussions span industries and regions.

Early Adopters 9

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 9

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 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy signals from California, the world's 9th largest economy, are clearing a path for energy innovation. The market will decide that.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

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.”

Company 9

Company Insurance Engineering Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

GDP by 2020. 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. To rein in these costs and deliver better care at lower cost, the U.S. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

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. coal market. coal market. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 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.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 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.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

But there is also a bottom line argument: HBSC estimates that the global market for climate change solutions will grow to $2.2 trillion by 2020. Alternative energy technologies have become big business. Executives from Shell call sustainability a "TINA" issue — "There Is No Alternative.".

Innovation 14

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. Supermarkets are a case in point.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. As consumer demand for connected devices increases (and projections from Cisco and others suggest that there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020), traditional manufacturers will, en masse, become manufacturers of connected devices.

Engineering 8

Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

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. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

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.

Incubator 8

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On the upside, similar calculations from WWF and McKinsey suggests that this pace of change –they endorse a 3% reduction in absolute emissions per year through 2020 – will actually be very profitable. This may seem like a regional story, but it has global ramifications for manufacturing, consumer goods, the energy industry, and much more.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

With over 50 billion connected devices expected by 2020, the Internet of things (IoT) is poised to have a major impact. For example, solutions provider Oracle built huge market share by supporting multiple platforms like Windows and Linux. connectivity) or with energy efficiency. They either help connect devices (i.e.,

Software 8

Software Industry Incentives System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

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. Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011. Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it?

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

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. Improved pricing. Predictive maintenance.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Price Airlines Advertising 10

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

The use of automation technology is rapidly changing the landscape of various industries, mostly in the labor-intensive sectors. Autonomous shipping and the ability to control trucks inside mining pits from an office are some few technologies emanating from artificial intelligence. Mining automation market will reach $3.29

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. Even the promise of future help, if and when it's needed, can be enough to convince a mentor to give up his time and energy.

Mentor 15

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). Unilever U.S. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

Is it a marketing campaign? 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. But GE, pursuing what Sheffer calls an “ambidextrous” strategy, wants to make the dirty forms of energy cleaner as well.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. If you are a bookkeeping accounting or auditing clerk, 86% of your tasks could be automated with current technology - and there are 1.6

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Of course, government aid is helping accelerate the transition, but given the economic boost that clean energy provides to many states, support for wind and solar looks relatively safe in Congress. They are, after all, the largest generation on the planet and will make up 50% of the global workforce by 2020. ” A Changing Climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8