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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

Many companies in European markets that have producers or suppliers in China currently do not assess carbon footprint in their supply chains. From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc.

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Aerial Photos Tell a Story About Which Cities Are Embracing Clean Energy

Harvard Business

Besides realizing that my carbon footprint for this year would be particularly horrendous, two things occurred to me from my perch in the sky: 1) there are a lot of people out there and 2) you can get a sense of how well a region is embracing clean energy by just looking at rooftops. People are everywhere. Like, a lot. states, is vast. (I’ve

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How to Consistently Get Consulting Clients.Even if You're Brand New and Just Starting Out

Consulting Matters

Forget one-off marketing tactics that give you hit or miss results. Instead building a marketing system that puts your client attraction on autopilot. archetypal energy, wants, needs, aspirations, etc.). To stand out in the market, focus on how you uniquely meet an unmet or under-met market need.

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The Five Ones … or The Five 1s … or The 5 Ones

Rod Burkert

The more stuff you have going on, the more scattered your energy. On the other hand, a simple(r) business model requires a similar amount of energy, but has a focused direction. 1 – Pursue ONE target market. Figure out the clients you like serving—and that’s your one target market to go after. #2 That target market (e.g.,

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. reducing energy consumption, supporting local communities, enhancing physical and mental well-being, etc.).

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