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Sustainability targets in businesses are increasing to mitigate the risk of stringent regulations, taxation, and, more importantly, to meet customer demand for more environmentally friendly products. To achieve these goals, businesses adopt decarbonization strategies and invest in low-carbon technologies and services at different stages of the supp...

Supply chain in any organization is literally its backbone. Cutting across a range of functions, it traverses across the life cycle of a product. Even a slight impediment can affect the entire value chain, run schedules off track, and significantly hamper productivity and efficiency. As companies struggle with visibility and transparency in the tra...

During the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the European Union and the United States announced their commitments to become carbon neutral by 2050, while China and India, the first- and third-largest emitters, plan to become carbon neutral by 2060 and 2070, respectively. Low-income countries will struggle to reduce their carbon...

This series features emerging Trend Opportunity Profiles that share novel business outlooks in the form of models that promote the use of advanced technologies, increased digital presence, and environment-friendly businesses. The strong impact of the shared economy has led to the growth of models that enable sharing of economic resources, advanced ...

09 Sep 2015  |  Global  |  Megatrends

New and Future Business Models for Energy Utilities

Distributed Generation, Smart Technology, and Renewable Energy Drive Business Model Innovation

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The traditional utility business model of a pure-play centralised power producer and provider will soon be extinct. Distributed generation (DG) will increasingly feature in new utility value propositions as utilities try to capture more downstream opportunities. These will include several models, from an aggregator of DG to providing complete energ...

This study features emerging Trend Opportunity Profiles that share novel business outlooks in the form of models, which offer convenience to customers and profit to owners through advanced technology usage, increased digital presence, and strategic collaborations. With a shift to convenience and ease of access as the focal point for consumers, c...

05 Jul 2017  |  North America  |  Megatrends

Smart Cities Funding Models

Bridging the Funding Gap of the Next Trillion-dollar Market

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Smart Cities are cities built on ‘Smart’ and ‘Intelligent’ solutions and technology which will lead to the adoption of at least 5 of the 8 following smart parameters: smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart healthcare, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart governance and smart education, and smart citizen. The Smart Cities marke...

The study focuses on the impacts of three evolving business models—service-based, fee-based, and eCommerce—that test and measurement (T&M) providers will face from 2016. Mega Trends across industry verticals such as automotive, healthcare, aerospace, consumer electronics, communication, and energy and environment lead to the creation of certain fac...

The North American hosted IP telephony and UCaaS market continues to expand at a steady pace, creating significant growth opportunities for providers with differentiated solution offerings, robust platforms and architectures, and effective go-to-market strategies tailored for specific customer segments. Both demand and supply factors are driving ma...