Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But the food production, delivery and consumption chain is filled with waste. When we price carbon accurately, the efficient market will start to pay more attention to harvesting the last peach, or shifting to drip irrigation, vertical farms or simple techniques that have enormous benefits. Clean your plate ?

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. Where can supplies be purchased and staged to avoid high transportation or storage costs? You may be able consolidate or eliminate activities, which can simultaneously reduce costs and increase productivity.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. Unfortunately, households are not the only ones feeling the brunt of NPI’s. Conclusion.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2018

Taking Uber as an example, the company first identified expensive taxi/limo fares (problem) and aimed to use a GPS enabled smart phone app to connect drivers with riders more efficiently (solution). Starting with a focused service, transporting people from A to B, the solutions offered became broader over time. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. This will provide real time information about driving obstacles to improve driver safety.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2021

Improvements in Work Efficiency and Effectiveness. I ended up having problems with ease of luggage transport and being able to predict when I would be able to take carry on luggage (depending on the overhead cargo storage size of each airplane). Wireless Mouse. Bottom Line. Consulting is just like being a craftsman.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The productivity myth We live our personal and professional lives in an increasingly efficient and productive world. Without realizing we celebrate the idea of “more” in all of its shapes and forms as we often admire: The company with most revenue The product with most features The organization with most people. …

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S. oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

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Harvard Business

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.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

So even as rig counts collapsed, production is barely off the highs, at a price that isn't even profitable. But the recent drop toward $40 a barrel and below puts even the most efficient operators in a bind. With every bounce in the price of oil, US producers used enhanced techniques to get more and more oil out of existing wells.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

When a third competitor becomes more efficient and lowers the price, even more is sold. We have transportation systems that just a hundred years ago would have seemed like a fantasy. When a factory makes a product but pollutes the river that flows by it, the factory doesn’t pay for the pollution unless required to.

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Harvard Business

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.” Keeping the world at 1.5

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. This technology can be fitted into regular production trucks and is a huge step towards fully autonomous transportation. Reader Alain writes. "

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

FinTechs are internet companies that streamline financial systems and make funding the supply chain more efficient. This is similar to the way third-party logistics companies (3PLs) arrange transportation. It used to be that a firm would have all of its transportation contracted with one trucking company.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. New competitors are not even staying away from more traditional, low-margin industries.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. Nor would it distinguish her from any other candidate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Companies that adopt this practice will not only be better employers; studies have shown that stable retail schedules can also drive sales and labor productivity.

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freshminds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The omni channel customer is more demanding and wants their products delivered when and where they want. They expect you to have the product, or at least to make it clear how long it will take before the order ships. Shoppers perhaps seem stuck 'between the brick and a click' when ordering products this Christmas.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

The seller calculates all costs, fixed and variable, that have been or will be incurred in manufacturing the product, and then applies a markup percentage to these costs to estimate the asking price. For stand-alone projects in particular, cost-plus pricing discourages efficiency and cost containment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. They make us more efficient and productive. It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined. Photo by Annie Spratt. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2017

On the contrary, clarity about where the buck stops is one of the most critical enablers of efficient teamwork. ” Another common misconception is that collaboration is cross-selling, the practice of suggesting new services or products, usually under another colleague’s purview, to an existing client. Work on your network.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

We’re looking for products that will have a positive and powerful impact on the environment and on the economy.” Avoiding dangerous climate change requires the radical decarbonization of energy, transportation, and manufacturing on a scale that is historically unprecedented.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today. Transportation: $1.40. Two casts of lime: $2.40. That was high. ? Hair: $0.31. More than I needed. ? Mantle-tree iron: $0.15. ? Nails: $3.90. ? Latch: $0.10. ?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

It is a product of the fundamental structure of the monopoly right to serve. In my assessment it worked when the privatization eliminated the monopoly right to serve, as was often the case in telecom and sometimes in transportation. The result in virtually all cases has been increasingly high costs and increasingly bad service.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Inherently, digital printing’s “additive” manufacturing process promises to be less costly than more conventional “subtractive” manufacturing techniques — think about printing something layer by layer instead of milling a block of material into a final product. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The traditional drivers of brand premium are being joined (and to varying degrees supplanted) by newer, tech-enabled variables: software, interactive products, digital interactions, immersive experiences, and predictive services, to name a few. Product: mechanical vs. interactive. Brand equity: heritage vs. digital.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The Alliance implemented Bain’s recommendations and has become a successful advocate for transportation issues, enlisting the help of many large businesses in the downtown area (e.g., Fun fact: the project’s installation of energy-efficient lighting was one of New York City’s largest lighting retrofits ever.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

The PillCam is now sold in over 60 countries, and several companies offer competing products. Kamen may be best known for his Segway Personal Transporter, but he is a prolific medical device innovator as well. Another outsider of note is Dean Kamen, who I profile in my book on serial breakthrough innovators, Quirky.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2016

For instance, managing environmental impact is a very important element of business strategy for firms in the fossil fuel or transportation industries. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors. Less so for financial institutions or healthcare companies.

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