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February 2017

Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Environmentally-Friendly Or just welfare for the...

In this article, Arthur D. Little’s report on why electric vehicles may not be as environmentally- friendly as stated is discussed. The report is referenced as saying that manufacturing a compact and mid-sized electric vehicle discharges 12 thousand and 17 thousand pounds more CO² gases than...
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Automotive
February 2017

Tackling the digital hype: Executing digitally-enabling strategies

Most executives agree that successfully implementing a business strategy is usually a lot more challenging than developing it. Unrealistic or overly academic theories, while persuasive on paper, can be costly in practice and all too often lead to passive resistance or even “tissue rejection” by the...
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Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
February 2017

Arthur D. Little Middle East Named RTA Management Consulting Supplier of the...

Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, honors Arthur D. Little for supporting the success of its ambitious Travel & Transport agenda

Arthur D. Little (ADL) today announced that it has been awarded the “Management Consulting Supplier Award” by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Dubai, UAE. A leading partner in the agency’s work to deliver a series of innovative Travel and Transportation projects, ADL was recognized by His...
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Travel & transportation
February 2017

New Product Development: Organizing to identify customer needs

Obtaining a deep understanding of customer needs is central to any new product development process. Over the last decade tools and techniques for obtaining customer intelligence in B2C industries have become increasingly sophisticated.Digitalization now provides a vast reservoir of hitherto...
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February 2017

Product development: recognizing and serving customer needs

The inability to recognize and serve customer needs is one of the most common reasons that new products and innovations fail. B2C product development projects increasingly turn to comprehensive market data and short design iterations to hone products to the needs and wants of their target audiences...
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February 2017

The importance of understanding RCP regulation

Telecom players dedicate significant resources to complying with retail & consumer protection (RCP) regulation, having created complex horizontal processes and tools spanning several departments.Despite this, Andrea Faggiano, Giancarlo Agresti, Giulia Strusi, Richard Swinford and Gregory...
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February 2017

Developing incentives for greater flexibility

Aggregators, integrated utilities and end users need to define their strategy to seize the business potential that demand side management (DSM) offers as a flexibility solution. In this article, Kurt Baes and Florence Carlot at Arthur D. Little discuss why understanding the needs and constraints of...
In the Press
February 2017

E-Learning and smart manufacturing

E-learning is a prerequisite for efficiently rolling out respective solutions and gathering the associated benefits. To efficiently support the global rollout of such solutions, training of global staff needs to be fast and efficient, and have frequent updates.Here, e-learning becomes the core...
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Operations management
February 2017

What’s next for petroleum downstream

New business models are critical for a downstream sector supplying energy to a changing mobility market. In this article, Daniel Monzón, Rodolfo Guzman, Alfredo Verna and Micaela Carlino at Arthur D Little, consider the challenges and opportunities facing downstream players.
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Utilities & alternative energy, Strategy
January 2017

Big feature: Historic opportunities presented by smart cities

Experts from the Arthur D Little consultancy provide a detailed overview of the historic, “trillion-dollar” opportunity presented by the move to smart cities, in this article by Ralf Baron, Morsi Berguiga, Jaap Kalkman, Adnan Merhaba, Ansgar Schlautmann and Karim Taga.
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