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Category: Industrial Strategy
Two ways that Google Keeps Its Operations Carbon-Neutral
Google searches the Circular Economy for carbon neutrality
How digitally mature is your organization and should you care?
The answer is you should care — digital maturity matters. In general, according to a recent Cap Gemini Consulting study, digitally mature organizations with a strong digital strategy have at least twice the profitability of their peers who lagged behind. Unfortunately, there is a lot of confusion as to what a Digital Strategy is. A…
When senior managers in professional services won’t share
Professional service firms, in response to an increasingly complex world, have created internal groups that are very narrowly focused. Based on my unscientific research, it has driven employees to be highly protective of their client contacts. Unfortunately it also leaves a lot of money on the client’s table! One tactic that professional service firms are starting to…
eBay decides to run a full data center on fuel cells
The six megawatts of cells will run on biogas, generated by organic waste at landfills or farms, and natural gas, use the grid only for backup power. I love this announcement, along with the fact that Daimler Benz is opening a fuel cell plant in Vancouver, as it gives amazing credibility to a technology sector, and a group…
Introducing the iBlood Lab
A cheap lens is all that is needed to enable an iPhone4 to discern the shapes of cells in a blood sample that can make it easier to diagnose conditions such as sickle-cell anemia in places without medical infrastructure. The system allows field workers to photograph blood samples from patients, and then send the micrographs…
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