The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 26, 2021

The model explored the potential changes in the transportation system once AVs become mainstream. They identified seven key areas of impact: traffic flow; land use and the built environment; transportation infrastructure; transportation equity; transportation mode choice; and jobs related to transportation and traffic safety.

Transportation 98

Transportation Guidelines Engineering Survey 98

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Research from Northwestern University highlights the impact that could be made if heavy-duty vehicles are converted to electric-powered engines, however. When we think of electric vehicles, we probably think primarily of passenger vehicles.

Energy 97

Energy Transportation Engineering Power 97

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2023

A few years ago a report from the Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET) found that the public is not really sold on the benefits of smart cities, due in large part to confusion about just what the term means and precisely what makes a city smart (or not).

Human Capital 89

Human Capital Tourism Metrics Transportation 89

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Daisy Hooper , CMI’s head of policy and innovation, appeared in BusinessGreen last week, pointing out the key role for apprenticeships in the transition to a low-carbon economy. He stressed that the UK has been lagging on skills and apprenticeships for decades. We need that injection of talent more than ever.

Groupthink 52

Groupthink Newsletter Article Transportation 52

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For many years, the prevailing narrative was that cities were the engines of our economies, with the agglomeration effect bringing together talent and consumers to make cities extremely compelling environments for work, rest, and play. Engines of creation. Cities have long been viewed as the engines of the economy.

GDP 128

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 128

CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you transport yourself back to high school physics for a moment, you might recall Newton’s First Law – an object at rest stays at rest. No matter how aerodynamic an object might be, it still requires an external force to set it in motion. In the physical world, the forces that set an object […].

Transportation 105

Transportation Magazine Objective Chief Operating Officer 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The allure of building indoors in a controlled environment instead of in the mud, muck, and maelstrom of a conventional site has made prefabrication a strong candidate for the future of construction for architects, engineers, and construction futurists. But time and again, the revolutionary potential of the approach has failed to materialize.

Construction 23

Construction Decentralization Transportation Engineering 23

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 15, 2022

Cities are undoubtedly the engines of our economy, but they are also places that are riddled with inequalities. Those in the lower socioeconomic classes also tended to limit their movements, with the authors speculating that this may be due to a lack of affordable transportation.

Class 75

Class Travel Transportation Survey 75

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 18, 2021

The study charts the progress made by Sweden from a poor, northern country into a modern industrial power, harnessing electrical energy to transform industry, transportation, and agriculture. Recent research from Lund University highlights how this narrative isn’t the only outcome in town, however.

Technology 133

Technology Transportation Industry Energy 133

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

Visit the airport in Beijing and ride the train that transports passengers from terminal to terminal. He said that in the years following Kennedy’s articulation of that goal, NASA engineers would periodically hit a major roadblock and declare the goal impossible. Young and old alike are actually excited about their future.

Armstrong 182

Armstrong Engineering Transportation Technology 182

LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

This included clever work on smarter cities which turned IBMs computer expertise to solving complex problems with transport, urban planning, and rebalancing the global economy, and encouraged innovation to support customers in those areas. .” At exactly the point his competitors were fearful he moved into new areas.

Strategy 153

Strategy Ethics Transportation Consultative 153

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. All other paper-related expenses like supplies, transportation, and storage are altogether eliminated. Each year, businesses in the United States waste about $8 billion managing paper alone.

Software 67

Software Compliance Learning Curve Cost 67

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China. Here are three main reasons why.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) Sam Walsh: At Rio Tinto, we had an innovation programme called “Mine of the Future”. However, I said time and time again that I was the only person in the company that did not know what the expression meant.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 29, 2008

I first came across this story from an engineering colleague of mine, Kyle Smith. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. He said he got it from Howard Winsett, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. ring any bells?

Bureaucracy 143

Bureaucracy Engineering Transportation Policies 143

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

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

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Packaging designers developed a six-sided box that allowed them to ship nine filtration systems in a container versus six in a square box, further reducing the costs of production.

Leadership 95

Leadership Automotive System Motivation 95

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Suppressing Innovation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Incentives How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Here's an uncomfortable truth about innovation: No matter how great your idea, you can't deliver breakthrough innovation without breakthrough organizational design. To build the right kind of team, for any breakthrough innovation effort, you have to think, quite literally, as though you are building a new company from scratch.

Innovation 12

Innovation Bottom-up Engineering Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. In companies, those profits can be invested in other innovation efforts like new products.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Classic leadership lessons apply.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Noisy and ungainly, India’s three-wheeled auto rickshaws are an iconic form of urban transport that can be hard to love. So the question is not whether “tuk-tuks” (as they are called because of their distinctive engine noise) should be replaced, but how they can be made to work more reliably. Innovation in Cities.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation. Cross-sector innovation is also promising. The glory years were decades ago. This amounts to 5.5

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Assumptions toppled Kodak despite the fact that its engineers built the first digital camera in 1975.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Civic leaders knew the formula for attracting industry: They had to provide financial incentives, a strong transportation system, a solid infrastructure, and community services such as public schools. cities based on findings from the 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future. Is your city future ready?

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. At the same time, South Africa is currently considering its own transport future and many African countries are much farther behind in transport infrastructure.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. Framing it that way would put in perspective the trillions of dollars the OECD and the American Society of Civil Engineers say is required to put American back in the lead. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

At the recent INNOVEIT event in Brussels, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology launched its Deep Tech Talent Initiative , which aims to provide a million people across the EU with the skills required to function in the deep tech sector in the coming years. The Digital Decade This focus on advanced skills is not especially new.

Skills 111

Skills Education Innovation Transportation 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Ford mastered mass production of cars with internal combustion engines a century ago. Can the industrial titan reinvent itself in a climate-conscious world?

Engineering 11

Engineering Industry Productivity Products 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Who doesn’t want to live in a future free from congestion, collisions, and pollution from combustion engines and the petroleum supply chain? Innovation in Cities. As for any transportation system, trust is essential. By and large, journalists and other commentators have been happy to go along for the ride. Insight Center.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

But for entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate innovators clamoring to build these businesses, it’s important to recognize that not all opportunities in this market are created equal. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

While they can start to tap into the global reserves of shale oil, which exist literally everywhere, developing the reserves in most places from China to Argentina will require a significant investment to develop the shale ecosystem and supply chains needed, in addition to the infrastructure to gather, treat, transport, and store the crude oil.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10