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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

These more “ intelligent assets ” read performance data, giving Cisco a detailed view of energy consumption — one that had not been available before. In the tech world, for example, energy is now the largest component of variable costs for running a datacenter. Some sectors have woken up already.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. For example, ostensibly, Facebook’s customers are its daily users (call them “asset units” for argument’s sake). Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.