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Category Archives: Future
Robo-signing foreclosure mess – applying auto assembly Taylor logic to services?
Fredrick Taylor famously did “time and motion” studies to improve productivity in the automobile industry. The American auto worker, pressured to produce more – did always honestly give a bolt the number of turns required. We seem to not understand how or if Taylor’s principles apply to the service economy. It now turns out thatContinue reading “Robo-signing foreclosure mess – applying auto assembly Taylor logic to services?”
Google to build off-shore wind energy transmission lines
Google’s foray into promoting the building of off-shore transmission lines for wind energy farms off the US East Coast is a great idea. Googe does this with a 37.5% stake (alongwith Good Energies and Marubeni Corporation ) in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) project of Trans-Elect .Trans-Elect is the implementing organization for AWC.
[ Note this post is from October 12, 2010 and is updated for formatting on May 19, 2021
Electricity markets:where is the growth ?
If you get reliable (99% of the time) electricity, you probably live in the developed world where most places have electricity. A quarter of the world’s population (October 2010) – mostly in Africa and South Asia do not have power and the list of countries by electricity consumption is revealing as is the data across countries by income.
[Note: This post from October 11, 2010 was updated on May 22, 2021 for formatting issues]
Holiday retail sales to increase 2.3% – who will spend first businesses or consumers?
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Gandhi, Indian Commonwealth Games, Melinda Gates – how will a new democracy like Afghanistan really look like?
The Mahatma had his 141st birthday without much fanfare on 2nd October 2010 as India was caught up with the 19th Commonwealth games and the Ayodhya controversy. The latter resulted in a ban on text messages lest there be flare-ups between Hindus and Muslims based on “hi-tech” cell phone text based inciting. Here’s the openingContinue reading “Gandhi, Indian Commonwealth Games, Melinda Gates – how will a new democracy like Afghanistan really look like?”
Employees First -Customers Second – the enabling CEO and Gen Y
Vineet Nayar ‘s ideas are quite remarkable and yet simple. He says that its really important to be able to motivate employees through transparency ,empowerment and enabling. The employee should truly feel that this is her/his company, cause and customer and s/he is the “owner”. Also Nayar is one of the first large company CEO’sContinue reading “Employees First -Customers Second – the enabling CEO and Gen Y”
Recession is over,stockmarket is up – when will jobs and housing turn around?
Apparently,the recession is over since June of 2009 – it was announced today, stocks went up in the US and em pathetically-worldwide. But this does not go well with lots of Americans. As President Obama mentioned today, all talk of the recession ending is useless if you do not have a job. And currently theContinue reading “Recession is over,stockmarket is up – when will jobs and housing turn around?”
Re-thinking Medical Insurance Business as an Electricity Business- executing healthcare reform
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Poverty report – the mobility of skills and IBM’s Project Match
Public policy should actively encourage moves to wherever work is, by covering moving and relocation costs and setting off the public expense of trying to support the skilled person at a location where the skill may take time to deploy. Depending on economic recovery, or may never get a chance to flourish again.