The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 26, 2021

Battery cell production is the fundamental rate-limiter slowing down a sustainable energy future. High energy days. These “high energy days” may only happen a few times per year, but they are hugely influential in our decision about whether to go electric or not. Very important problem,” tweeted Elon Musk.

Transportation 91

Transportation Energy Incentives Travel 91

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The report highlights how this growth has increased the demand for various resources, but especially energy and water, while also contributing to things like pollution and urban heat, which can threaten both the sustainability and livability of cities in the country. Good and stable.

Transportation 106

Transportation Report Environment Policies 106

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe. Sustainability is the new business benchmark.

Industry 75

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Partner with local R&D brainpower to start your own clean-energy venture.

Press Release 157

Press Release Discount Education Transportation 157

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted The ABC Problem Solving Strategy. Jane Perdue of the Braithwaite Innovation Group contributed How To Involve The Right People In The Right Way. Jesse summarized: “Some visions generate a tremendous amount of energy that drive you and your team where you want to go.

Leadership Development 150

Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 150

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For instance, Singapore is regularly at the top of the Smart City Index , and a common feature of those at the top of these rankings is that they were also able to effectively manage the pandemic via smart technologies. A smarter normal.

GDP 137

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 137

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. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses. ” -Stefan Thomke.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although our short answer was "no," we believe that managing water will become a critical business skill for the 21st century. Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. Both of these groups may play a crucial role in creating an ecosystem for water innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

Innovation 16

Innovation Health Care Globalization Media 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. Joseph Schumpeter, the 20 th century economist known for heralding the role of innovation in the evolution of society, argued that established firms were best positioned to innovate because of the resources available to them.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Company Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. The change will become invisible.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer. Or consider transportation. In a suburban world where automobile transportation is the only option, all of those citizens are placed at a huge disadvantage.

Transportation 14

Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies. .”

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Edison’s insight provides a useful frame for viewing Tesla’s splashy launch of Tesla Energy and its battery systems — Powerwall for residential use and Powerpack for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Tesla is clearly demonstrating systems thinking, which is the first precondition.

Strategy 8

Strategy Levitt Energy System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule. Within C.H.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. In the U.S.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

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. Deutsche Bahn: Achieve rail transport that is CO2-free and powered by renewables. It’s brave.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Here are some specific ways in which assertiveness complements a wide range of the critical leadership skills you may already have: • Creating a culture of innovation: A couple of years ago I conducted a study to determine the characteristics of the most innovative leaders in one of the largest companies in the world.

Skills 15

Skills Transportation Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

They drive innovation and move the organization forward.". " They''re sleepwalking through their workday putting time — but not energy or passion — into their work.". While managers and executives are the most engaged, they''re apparently not doing a great job engaging others. Leadership Managing people'

Bottom-up 9

Bottom-up Absenteeism Report Transportation 9

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

JANUARY 26, 2015

How do they understand the need to change and create the energy and urgency around it? Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

To customers, the company feels as nimble and innovative as its digital competition, even though its back-end systems remain problematic. Even with the project’s delays and costs , city planners confronted the fact that the old infrastructure just wouldn’t fit the area’s transportation demands.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Second, we see a raft of innovations that will alter how products are designed, manufactured and sold — everything from nanotechnologies to 3D printing. Then, manufacturing's most important role is as a driver of innovation, trade, and productivity. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. As one put it: “I was curious about finding a professional path that would tap into my energy, excitement, and motivation to make a difference and get things done.”.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

These talks will reshape the global energy sector and every other industry that relies on energy — in other words, all of them. The goals vary, but this is the first time in history that every country will agree to manage its emissions. For example, the U.S. They’re not exactly legally binding.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovation' Over the last years, labor intensive production keeps moving to ever-cheaper countries.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8