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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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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. Technology advancements and the Industrial Internet of Things are making this outcome orientation more feasible every day. The result, or outcome, is that farmers can manage their operations more efficiently and increase crop yields. Insight Center.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry. For years, U.S.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

I think what you say makes sense, but implementation of your idea requires quite an re-allocation of industry resources. I think this approach is more efficient because it reduces transaction related costs and provides a gain sharing program which is mutually beneficial for all parties. April 1, 2009 at 1:14 AM. Consultant Insider.

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How are retailers responding to mobile shopping?

freshminds

Because of this, retailers have to respond accordingly as sales via handheld devices increase. Between 2012 and 2014 sales via smartphones catapulted from 5% to to 34%. So what’s most interesting is that mobile sales are becoming a way for express payments whilst in stores themselves. Checking customer reviews.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

A retailer’s point of sale (POS) system falls into that category. It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry.

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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data. Improved pricing. Predictive maintenance.

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