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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Digital event: Deep Dive into the Energy Sector In case you missed it, the CMI APAC Regional Boards recently delivered a Deep Dive into the Energy Sector Digital Event. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hong Kong Section was also a co-sponsor of the event. Event details here.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. They do commit to engage with other people who share their experience.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

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Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Harvard Business Review

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Says Comstock, “You have to believe that energy storage has a big future.”

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Could the Middle East Fuel the Solar Industry?

Harvard Business Review

"Ten years ago we met in Saudi and said 'someday we'll be sitting in the middle of the desert talking about renewable energy.' The speaker was an academic at Sydney's University of New South Wales, and we met last week at a vast trade show in Abu Dhabi called the World Future Energy Summit. And here we are."