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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

Companies are adopting various strategies to make their logistics more efficient and environmentally friendly. Switching to eco-friendly transportation options, such as electric vehicles and hybrid trucks, helps reduce emissions. Optimizing Logistics Logistics optimization is crucial for reducing the carbon footprint of a supply chain.

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Startup Experience: A Must for Every Young Professional

Tom Spencer

While my consulting experiences afforded me exposure to diverse industries, the crux of my passion lay within the realm of transportation. This initiative positioned us to compete directly with industry giants like FedEx, UPS, and Amazon, offering e-commerce merchants efficient and cost-effective delivery solutions.

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Project Management: Leverage Data for Better Cost Control 

PM Alliance

Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. Data such as workforce metrics, vendor rates, and material pricing gives your team the necessary background to minimize costs by identifying the right resource mix for each market. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Key performance metrics, such as “intent to return,” driven by expensive tickets and long lines, were worsening.

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To Go Digital, Leaders Have to Change Some Core Beliefs

Harvard Business

Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. For the leader of an asset building company, most of these dimensions would revolve around the efficient production and management of physical goods. Uncover the core beliefs that motivate these behaviors.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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We Don’t Need Political Solutions for Global Trade — We Need Practical Ones

Harvard Business

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. Business runs on agreements — that shipments will be sent and received, salaries and invoices paid, goods transported, contracts fulfilled, debts honored, and the law complied with. Discrepancies indicate malfeasance, corruption, or error.

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