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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. Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

Rather, the most visible outcomes of many ZBB efforts are burdensome policies (such as travel cost restrictions) that fail to address the underlying fundamentals (such as who needs to travel, why, and when). In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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The Lessons I Learned From Peter Drucker

Tom Spencer

According to my aunt, who accepted the Medal of Freedom on his behalf (because at that point he was too sick to travel), Drucker was also unbelievably embarrassed that “ management by objective ” had been used to justify the Iraq War. By the turn of the century, this was much more evident, at least in private. Image Source: Benandju ).

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Attended vs. Unattended RPA: It Doesn’t Need to be an Either-Or

1 to 1

Streamlining Efficiency. Industries that can particularly benefit from automation run the gamut: retail, healthcare, automotive, government, communications, travel and hospitality, financial services, and insurance. Most likely, the answer is: both. Well thought out business process automation benefits the entire organization.

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

Many of life’s major arenas and how we approach or practice them, such as environmentalism, writing, travel, war and peace, politics and rebellion, philosophy and introspection, are steeped within the life and legend of Henry David Thoreau. By Ken Lizotte CMC. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

For example, a pricing lead may also take a turn in finance assessing indirect rate impacts. Pricing team professional development can include something so simple as cross-training where each pricing team member takes a job rotation into a new area – sometimes for a year or more.