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Arthur D. Little’s latest viewpoint entitled ‘The Future of Urban Mobility: Towards networked, multimodal cities of 2050,’ recommends that cities must implement one of following three strategies, dependent on their location and maturity, to meet the urban mobility challenge:  network the transportation system, fundamentally redesign mobility systems and to establish a sustainable mobility core.

Arthur D. Little’s latest viewpoint entitled ‘The Future of Urban Mobility: Towards networked, multimodal cities of 2050,’ found Hong Kong’s transport networks to be the best out of 66 influential cities. Amsterdam, London and Stockholm also topped the league table.

Research and analysis undertaken by Wilhelm Lerner, Partner for Strategy and Organisation at Arthur D. Little, found that approximately 70% of the world’s population will live in a city by 2050, causing problems for urban mobility systems. Arthur D. Little’s latest viewpoint entitled ‘The Future of Urban Mobility: Towards networked, multimodal cities of 2050,’ identifies solutions and technologies available to meet today’s mobility challenges.

Based on an analysis by Arthur D. Little, Middle Eastern airports have posted above average growth rates in the past several years. Arthur D. Little says the upward trend in passenger throughput is mainly due to the continued expansion of the Gulf’s ‘big three’ global airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar airways.

Arthur D. Little’s latest viewpoint entitled ‘The Future of Urban Mobility: Towards networked, multimodal cities of 2050,’ identifies three strategies that cities need to implement to meet the urban mobility challenge: Network the system, rethink the system and establish sustainable core.

125 years have passed since the first innovation management company was established. In these years, Arthur D. Little has played a pivotal role in almost all major innovations that have changed the world. As a leader in linking strategy, technology and innovation, Arthur D. Little believes the future of innovation management and successful business lies in five key aspects: customer-based innovation, proactive business model innovation, frugal innovation, high-speed/low-risk innovation and integrated innovation.

Arthur D. Little’s latest report entitled ‘The New Face of Innovation’ identifies five new advances in the innovation practice: adoption of design thinking, the Tsunami of co-creation, strategically choosing to capture value rather than creating it, closer value-chain collaboration leading to faster innovation and inclusive probing of uncertain futures via lead users.

Premium manufacturers such as BMW expect record earnings for the current year and continue to show optimism.  Even for a possible downturn BMW seems to be forearmed, says a speaker of the Munich-based company. And this is exactly what looms in China: The findings of a recent Arthur D. Little-study reveal that this lucrative growth market in China will shrink from its current 15 per cent to 7 per cent in 2013. Initial indicators of this coming downturn are the rebates that Audi, Daimler and BMW must grant Chinese customers in order to lure them into the sales rooms.

Richard Eager, Director of UK Technology and Innovation Practice at Arthur D. Little, says the most successful companies of the next decade will be the ones who get a handle on the right approach to innovation. Mr Eager identifies five interrelated innovation management concepts as the most important: customer-based innovation, proactive business model innovation, frugal innovation, high-speed/low-risk innovation and integrated innovation.

Germany’s four operators of nuclear power stations are to face a bill of 18 billion Euros for decommissioning the country’s reactors.  Total costs might top the 32.5 billion Euros that companies have set aside for expenses relating to the shutdown. Arthur D. Little says this is because the cost of storing nuclear waste produced during the lifetime of the 17 facilities are excluded from estimates.