December, 2015

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Sustainable Risk Management – Organizational Factors

Green Project Management

This post is intended to provide the foundational concepts around organizational sustainable risk management factors. This post also recommends adopting sustainable risk management as a core discipline within sustainable change delivery. This is part of a series that provides the foundation for understanding sustainable change delivery. “It is far better to grasp the universe as […].

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News from Amazon Solutions Day

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN-Amazonia in partnership with SDSN Global organized Amazon Solutions Day during COP 21 in Paris on December 7th at the Columbia Global Center | Paris (Reid Hall). The event aimed to develop a common vision strategy for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Amazon region, as well as financing mechanisms. Several experts in sustainable development participated including WWF President Yolanda Kakabadse, SDSN Director and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-Genera

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Be the Disrupter, not the Disrupted: Here’s How to Stimulate Innovation

Daniel Burrus

Whether we acknowledge it or not, we live in an economy of digital disruption. Innovations happen everyday — one of these days, it might be the next big thing that puts you out of a job. But if you’re anticipating the future and trying to be pre-active to future known events, to even be the disrupter (rather than reactive and the disrupted), there’s a better chance you will not only succeed but excel.

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10 Technology Driven Hard Trends Shaping 2016

Daniel Burrus

It has been widely reported that we should expect more than seven billion people and businesses, and at least 30 billion devices, will be connected to the Internet by 2020, so it should be of no surprise that this tech-driven economy is here to stay. Technology has become everyone’s business as we enter the next stage of this digital transformation where even your next toaster or refrigerator will connect to the Internet.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Predictive Analytics Prevent Crime

Daniel Burrus

An Anticipatory Organization™ incorporates the future into their present day practices. They have an eye toward what is coming and make concrete plans in the present to prepare for what lies ahead. Of course, this model doesn’t just apply to businesses. Anticipating the future has benefits for everyone. A new product developed by Hitachi takes note of this mass relevance.

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The Merits of Innovation in a Competitive World

Daniel Burrus

Focusing time and resources on your competition limits businesses’ innovation potential for greater success, and prevents them from being leaders in their field. If a business is consumed by its rivalries, then its attention is not on creating new must-have products or services. Instead, it is focused on what its competition is doing, and how to either replicate or incrementally improve on those products, services and practices.