Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Energy transitions occur from time to time, due to the discovery of new energy sources such as coal or due to policy changes, such as France’s embrace of nuclear energy. Energy transitions have occurred throughout history, from burning wood to coal, then oil and natural gas. Background.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight Center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation. Insight Center.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. The earlier you wake up, the more productive you will be.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

You're a busy product person, a Product Owner. If you're a PO or a product manager, you might need to explain this product's strategy now. Or, for this project (interim release) for this product now. Do you want a common work product as an outcome? You see the need for these meetings: Standups.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In the flurry of statistics that exist around personal productivity, there’s one I find especially alarming : The average person is distracted or interrupted every 40 seconds when working in front of their computer. In productivity circles, this phenomenon is known as Parkinson’s law. Sarah Lawrence/Getty Images.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In today’s business landscape, sustainability is no longer a niche concern; it’s a core component of corporate strategy. Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

Robert Sutton, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, looked at the research on group size and concluded that the most productive meetings contain only five to eight people. You are aware of how much time and energy everyone spends in meetings, and you want to implement a strategy that will yield the best results.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.). When Cisco rolls out the sensors globally, these savings will add up.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Do you focus your energy on selling yourself, your mission or methodology OR do you position yourself as a strategic partner who is ready to help solve a clients most pressing business performance challenges.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. California, Texas, and most of the U.S. electric demand.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

For example, currently, the A&D industry is facing increasing geopolitical and economic uncertainty as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, energy and raw materials challenges due to the sanctions imposed on Russia, inflation rate, etc. Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 30, 2024

From practical self-care strategies to the role of functional medicine and accountability, Julie’s advice is pragmatic and actionable. Accelerate your success with my VIP Brand Strategy and Messaging Services! If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to connect with Julie on LinkedIn or on her website.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Perhaps you want one for talking about industry news and business strategy (if only to avoid boring your non-work friends), another for talking politics, and yet another for talking about your kids or your pets or your triathlon training. Lists help you manage your attention and energy by letting you control what you see and when you see it.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. Strategy Development. Each of these routes is suited for different situations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. First, due in large part to the scale and consistency of their energy purchasing, industrials already pay the lowest rates for power. Use cross-functional teams.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2024

Hundreds of articles have been written on strategy, each with an author that presents a unique perspective from years of paradigm-shaking experience. Some even “reinvent the wheel” by rejecting past concepts altogether and introducing an entirely new way of thinking about strategy.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

The combination of these factors ( time + talent + energy ) and the interactions between them, is how human capital is converted into productivity and economic value. Our research concluded that the best companies, the top quartile in our study, generated over 40% more productive power than the average of the bottom three quartiles.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

In researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that every innovation strategy fails eventually, because innovation is, at its core, about solving problems — and there are as many ways to innovate as there are types of problems to solve. They lock themselves into one type of strategy and say, “This is how we innovate.”

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

We also discuss Puja's Amplified Life Triangle, a vital tool for understanding energy management and achieving a balance between logic and intuition in our lives and businesses. Don't miss this powerful conversation on the importance of deep spiritual work, trusting the process of divine timing, and aligning values and genius in work.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 18, 2022

As part of a consulting engagement or broader enterprise strategy alignment, you can expect to plan and run an offsite at one point of your career. So whether you are running a small executive team offsite, or one for a larger group, here are five tips I’ve used to plan a successful strategy offsite. It may take a few rounds.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go!

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

The goal was to find newcomers who got connected (and productive) much more quickly than peers starting at the same time and who stayed in the organization through milestones, such as the first nine months and the two- to four-year tenure band, at which flight risk is greatest. Kathryn Heath. Don’t Waste Your Time on Networking Events.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. China’s WeChat has most evidently pursued this strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. When capital costs are high, strategies that expand margins are almost always better than strategies that accelerate growth. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

M&A is central to many companies’ growth strategies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. Topic Images/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Chad Barr

JULY 17, 2024

The energy and precision of the dancers were astounding, with their creative moves showcasing iconic Michael Jackson choreography. The energy on stage was thrilling and engaging, making the entire audience, including us, sway and move to the music. Years of rigorous training were apparent in this top-notch production.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

When employees are engaged, they display high levels of enthusiasm, energy, and motivation, which translates into higher levels of job performance, creativity, and productivity. They are more likely to show up with energy and enthusiasm for what they do.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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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). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight center. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2023

has disrupted the auto industry and established itself as a leader in sustainable energy. Founded in 2003 by CEO Elon Musk, the company has rapidly expanded its offerings from luxury electric vehicles (EVs) to renewable energy solutions, positioning itself at the forefront of the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. If you’re a food company, can you produce healthy products that address the growing rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?

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