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Clean Tech Consulting: Adapting to Seize Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Consulting firms can assist by conducting thorough financial modeling and ROI analysis. Consultants can work closely with companies to assess supply chain practices, identify opportunities for optimization, and integrate clean tech solutions into procurement, logistics, and transportation processes.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Keeping the world at 1.5

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

This is expected as the costs of manufacturing, transportation and other inputs decline.) How could ROI be undermined by unanticipated value-added taxes or goods and services taxes (VAT/GST) — among the many different direct and indirect taxes that will come into play — with rates in Europe ranging from 3% to 27%?

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market. Here are five to learn from Ford thus far, about mobility services in particular, and more broadly, about how to deal with the uncertainty of new business models in new markets by testing and learning one’s way forward.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. But chasing the cool factor can lead to compromised ROI. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity.

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