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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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The Sales Role Multinationals Need in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. AJ: I totally agree that it massively shift market share from the sick banks to the healthy banks. But wouldnt that be a better market result than letting the sick banks keep their share? Tuesday, March 31, 2009. April 1, 2009 at 1:44 AM. Consultant Ninja. Anonymous said. Consulting.

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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. For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. What are you really looking for?

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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%. The app market is constantly evolving to create easy to use solutions to our every day activities. billion smartphones were sold across the world. Payment Apps.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

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. In a future dominated by autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing schemes, a typical family might decide to own fewer cars or none at all — meaning lower unit sales, all else equal.

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China Announces SOE Shakeup: Too Little Too Late to Matter

MishTalk

We now see the effects in steel and cement production, crashing commodity prices, capital flight, and a plunging stock market. The guidelines suggest that by 2020, the goals in all the main reform areas should be accomplished, constituting a system that is more suitable to the nation’s socialist-market economy,” said Xinhua. “The