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Daimler chief Zetsche: Daimler working toward swarm organization; mobility services, digitalization and e-mobility

Green Car Congress

Such as the person in charge and the team manager, or straight from the person responsible to the executive board. … We have to be prepared to constantly re-examine our core business and adapt it to market demands. Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper (2007) “ The New Principles of a Swarm Business ” MIT Sloan Management Review.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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