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The Future of Energy Resilience: Adapting to Extreme Weather Events

Strategy Driven

This event highlighted the urgent need to modernize energy systems to cope efficiently with such disasters. Furthermore, microgrids enhance flexibility and reliability by decentralizing energy production and reducing dependency on centralized power plants.

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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

Byrne’s list of Drucker’s major accomplishments included: Introducing the idea of decentralization, a concept that became basic to every large organization in the world. Shortly after his death business journalist John Byrne attempted to access Drucker’s contributions and strived to explain “why Drucker’s ideas still matter.”

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process. For example, Sia is a decentralized storage platform on the blockchain, leveraging underutilized hard drive capacity around the world.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

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The 3 Stages of a Country Embracing Renewable Energy

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this year, the European Union announced that its climate and renewable energy targets—a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, 20% of EU energy from renewable sources, and a 20% improvement in energy efficiency—are actually on track to realization by the year 2020. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business Review

This is due largely to the fact that the German economy went through an unprecedented process of decentralization of wage bargaining during the 1990s. New management approaches and measures added more efficiency and a results orientation. The Hartz reforms focused on creating incentives for seeking employment.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

It is outpacing the internet's, and Internet Service Providers', ability to efficiently deliver it. Do we need a new set of incentives that can help manage the internet's growth? Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? Distributed systems decentralize information.