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  • It’s Time to Google the Future of the Car Industry (Nikkei Ecology)

    12 Mar 2009 – Article

    Sadly, over time, key parts of the European and American car industries have often displayed thinking and behaviours that speak of denial of any need to adapt and evolve.

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  • We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For (Nikkei Ecology)

    Entrepreneurship and strategic alliances in the electrification of transport

    11 Nov 2008 – Article

    If the business of business is business, it is also to build future markets. One opportunity space attracting growing interest focuses on low-carbon cars.

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  • 2007: Year of the Supply Chain (Nikkei Ecology)

    Rapid globalization is best illustrated by the ever expanding tentacles of multinational supply chains

    11 Dec 2007 – Article

    In a constant quest to trim production costs, manufacturing companies are aggressively sub-contracting and extending their supply chains. Coastal towns in China are by no means the final frontier.

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  • L’Essor des Achats Responsables (Les Echos)

    11 Dec 2007 – Article

    Leveraging the latest technologies to track and monitor global supply chains can create new opportunities, and mitigate some of the dire ethical and environmental side-effects.

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  • Issue Brief: REACH

    Implications from laboratory to shop-shelf

    20 Feb 2007 – Article

    Why the new REACH regulation (standing for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals) is significant, not just for chemical companies but for whole swathes of industry and business in Europe and beyond.

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  • Issue Brief: Offshoring

    Neither here nor there

    15 Jun 2004 – Article

    As a steady stream of companies announces new offshore ventures amid the anger and concerns of unions, employees, communities and consumers, the question is: can offshoring be compatible with corporate responsibility?

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  • Driving Sustainability

    Can the Auto Sector Deliver Sustainable Mobility?

    12 Sep 2001 – Report

    An examination of four critical issues for the automotive industry, and how leading companies are defining - and responding to - the sustainable mobility agenda.

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