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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. This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. The Aviation Market.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

I think this approach is more efficient because it reduces transaction related costs and provides a gain sharing program which is mutually beneficial for all parties. Either way, I am not nearly as pessimistic as everyone else. Anonymous said. What about consumers? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Consulting. (88).

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Where Predictive Analytics Is Having the Biggest Impact

Harvard Business

Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data. Improved pricing. Predictive maintenance.

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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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The Stage Where Most Innovation Projects Fail

Harvard Business

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Is anyone responsible for ensuring these projects don’t fall through the cracks, or drop to the bottom of the sales force’s priority list?

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Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works

Harvard Business

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. With the right technology, could you manage this pipeline the way you manage a sales pipeline? Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? You’d be wrong.

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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%. So what’s most interesting is that mobile sales are becoming a way for express payments whilst in stores themselves. Checking customer reviews.

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