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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. The Aviation Market.

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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The Real Power of Platforms Is Helping People Self-Organize

Harvard Business

Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. There are hundreds of planes, thousands of pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and ground crews that must be properly deployed for the system to work efficiently. Even a PhD would have to admit at the beauty of that efficiency.

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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. They are about achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvements through automation or meeting government requirements.

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How to Prioritize Your Company’s Projects

Harvard Business

Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure. What about efficiency? The senior management of the postal company thought they had communicated clear priorities, but in fact they had created an operational dilemma that resulted from strategic confusion.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. How you operate on the inside should be inextricably linked with how you want to be perceived on the outside.

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