Interior of a Sea Leopard yacht.
Dematerializing (parts of) supply chains
James Governor of Greenmonk Consulting is doing fascinating things to help businesses build more sustainability into their operations. His research takes him to many companies, including some of the biggest ( IBM , Microsoft , Sun , etc.), to study their approaches to these challenges.
For instance, earlier this summer he got to visit the Bristol, England labs of Hewlett-Packard . He wrote up the findings of his visit in this post on the Greenmonk blog:
On HP Labs, Sustainability, Energy Demand Management and Bit Miles
HP most obviously impacts the 2% of global energy use — and greenhouse emissions — associated with IT hardware. Smart design of future servers and data centers can help reduce this impact. But IT’s 2% can also go much further when it helps to “dematerialize” other aspects of business supply chains. As James puts it:
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A delegation chaired by vice presidents of Russia’s largest oil manufacturer Rosneft and oil pipeline operator Transneft has arrived in Beijing earlier this week and will enter the final round of talks with China on the US$25 billion worth of oil loan scheme, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Russian Vice Premier Igor Sechin is also scheduled to visit China this week, which is, to some extent, expected to expedite the progress of negotiations between two sides.
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Once you adjust for inflation, that is — as Alan Mutter explains:
Newspaper Ads Tank Again, Industry Shrinking Fast
If you subtract this year’s likely $42.7 billion in print-ad revenues from the constant-dollar value of the sales a decade ago, the difference of approximately $10 billion means that today’s revenues are nearly 20% lower than they were in 1997. On a constant-dollar basis, therefore, industry sales this year will be about one-fifth lower than they were in 1997... more
This Deal Journal interview with author/professor Lawrence Mitchell intrigues both the business journalist and the historian in me:
Welcome to America, Home of “The Speculation Economy”
DJ: But part of the success of America has been its ability to innovate with finance.
LM: A tiny, tiny fraction, less than 3%, is for new offerings. The rest is secondary trading. If we’re not financing productivity, what are we financing? You start to see this sort of second-order level ... more
“The Patriots have been running up the score.” That’s been a steady refrain in the current NFL season. I say baloney.
Tom Peters, writing in from abroad, complained about this a couple of days ago:
. . . I would order a pox on the Pats—leading 42-10 at the end of three quarters, why the 14 additional points in Q4?
Depite being a fan of his, I let him have it in the comments of his blog. After reviewing how the Pats’ fourth-string running back score... more
Forrester Research analyst Jeremiah Owyang describes three companies that have wasted his time lately: Real , Delta Air Lines , and Peoplesoft. Rather than merely gripe, he does the right thing by suggesting ways they could improve what they’re doing.
Possibly I’m reading too much into this, but Real and Peoplesoft (or rather, someone from the Oracle mothership) have already responed to Jeremiah, within just a few hours of his post. Delta . . . M.I.A.
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