The Economist reports on The American economy’s state of health, how it has deteriorated over the past two decades and proposes some suggestions for how to raise it once more. Factually, America’s economic prospects began to bloom back in the 1990’s, when productivity soared and immigrants and foreign capital flocked to take advantage of what was quickly dubbed the “New Economy”. Sadly, the New Economy is no more…
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The RENIXX index, which measures 30 of the world’s largest publicly traded renewable-energy companies, fell 15% after what was perhaps the biggest environmental disaster America has seen. Many expected BP’s oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico to revive the urgency for a reduced dependence on oil. But the 15% had investors wondering “Is green-energy dead”?…
The Economist reports how the end of the paper-age has yet to arrive. Ever since the “paperless office” was first mooted in a Business Week article back in 1975, its estimated time of arrival has always been ten years away. And so it remains. With the advent of technological innovation at our fingertips, you would rightly…
Chesapeake Energy and its CEO, Aubrey McClendon, have been the public face of the U.S. shale gas revolution, which is as celebrated for its role in transforming energy geopolitics as it is feared for the potential environmental impacts of its key technology – hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking.’ Now, allegations of scandal at Chesapeake, the nation’s…
Let’s first make an assumption; that the personnel on the production floor were properly informed in absolute terms what the goals of the plant and the company might be and properly empowered to assess situations as they presented themselves. This is not a given, for all too often the people and their abilities to think…
Charles Darwin in his book, “The Origin of Species” (read full PDF book here) proposed that evolution occurs with the introduction of challenging or adverse circumstances on a population of a species such that only those who are able to adapt (either by natural selection or by action) thrive (or even survive). For instance, the…
Supply chains are adapting, not failing Much of the time most people do not think about the complex choreography that makes modern shopping possible. You just click and wait—and not too long, mind—for a package or three to arrive on your doorstep. Over the past few months, however, the world’s supply chains have elbowed their…
