Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century
2015; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 58; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1930-0166
Autores Tópico(s)Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
ResumoResource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) In Resource Revolution, Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers bring their expertise in cleantech and energy, accrued through their work as directors at McKinsey & Company, and link the growth of prosperity in Europe, the United States, Russia, and Japan to the technological progress of the first and second industrial revolutions. The world is poised, they argue, to launch a third industrial revolution, driven by the demands for energy, water, and food in China, India, Brazil, and other emerging economies. That third revolution, Heck and Rogers predict, will be a productivity revolution, driven by increased efficiency in resource utilization, which will draw 37 percent of the world's population--2.5 billion people, mostly in Asia and South America--into the industrial world for the first time. The first industrial revolution radically improved labor productivity, as workers moved from the fields to the factories, and inventions such as the steam engine and spinning frame allowed a single factory worker to perform tasks that had once taken many people. The second industrial revolution, which was made possible by the widespread availability of oil, electricity, and steel, radically improved the productivity of capital, with changes in management practice, the rise of the Corporation, and accelerated capital formation. Accounting standards were developed, corporate RD in the next step, the Internet will provide a channel for machines to talk to each other--this is what is referred to as the Internet of Things. …
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