Peter Winick

JUNE 13, 2024

What are those human factors that we really need to take into account if we’re going to create thriving, sustainable organizations? And then when things started to turn, return to normal or semi-normal or whatever, they tried to move that as much as they could to a variable cost instead of bringing back the bench.

Scaling 247

Scaling Variable Costs Culture Change Metrics 247

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Through digitization initiatives such as this, we now have a way to measure, monitor, and manage energy…this is huge since energy is typically a factory’s largest variable cost.” In the tech world, for example, energy is now the largest component of variable costs for running a datacenter.

Energy 13

Energy Variable Costs Operations Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). Accountability throughout the organization.

Energy 15

Energy Variable Costs Travel Operations 15