Renault, JLR, Nissan and Toyota drive car industry towards sustainability

Automotive sector takes positive steps towards a circular economy through remanufacturing and materials innovation.

Given its heavy reliance on raw material and legislative duties that place emphasis on the reuse and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, Europe'sautomotive industry is perfectly positioned to accelerate the agenda around closed-loop thinking. Renault's Choisy-le-Roi factory has been pumping out remanufactured automobile parts since 1949 and has since diversified into injection pumps, gearboxes, injectors and, most recently, turbo compressors.

The environmental payback speaks for itself. 

Read more at: http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/renault-jaguar-nissan-toyota-sustainability-circular-economy

What steps are many automobile companies taking towards sustainability? Do you believe these steps will payoff in the next future?

What's Wrong With Facebook's Business Model And Innovation Strategy?

Facebook’s (NASDAQ:FB) acquisition of WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion dollars demonstrates the company’s determination to remain the leader in social networking, even if that comes at a hefty premium.

 

At the same time, it reveals a very important limitation in Facebook’s business model: the very assumption that everyone can be a friend with everyone else.

Long before Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, Aristotle has argued that “true” friendship is governed by a strictly qualitative logic. That is, friendship is a rare spiritual intimacy that can only be shared among a handful of people.
As a result, a person may live an entire life and only possess three or four “real” friends.

Read more at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2014/02/23/whats-wrong-with-facebooks-business-model-and-innovation-strategy/


What will be the impact of this acquisition on FB business model ? What is your answer to the question posed by the title?