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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. Figure 2: Aviation Industry CO 2 Emissions. Billion industry by 2027. Billion industry by 2027.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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How RPA, NLP and ML will create the virtual workforce of tomorrow

Tom Spencer

RPA, which stands for ‘ robotic process automation ’, is a technology that consists of software robots ( bots ) that can mimic a human worker performing operations on their laptops. It is ideal for operations that involve rule based repetitive tasks to be done in large volumes. Enter machine learning (ML).

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Washington, DC

Management Consulted

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC. They reserve one only on days when they plan to come to the office.

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We Don’t Need a Whole New Regulatory Regime for Platforms Like Uber and Airbnb

Harvard Business

We believe, however, that these businesses have not redefined industries in a fundamental way; instead they are “old wines in new bottles.” For example, many leading hotel companies moved to an “asset light” model years ago. While they do leverage nontraditional assets (e.g.,

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges. headquarters in New York City.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. All but one of these new matchmakers directly disrupted an existing platform industry. Airbnb is the one exception.