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Manage Capital Investments Like a Supply Chain

Harvard Business

With generative AI, the rewiring of global supply chains, and investments in clean energy and associated technologies, business is on the cusp of capital investments the likes weve never before seen.

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Need an energy boost? Check your batteries

The Management Centre

Then take these two steps to boost your energy…. To boost your energy you need to focus on the right things for you. Finance: does your income match your lifestyle, or is there more money going out each month than coming in? If you want to boost your energy you need to identify whether any of your batteries are getting low.

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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Energy transitions occur from time to time, due to the discovery of new energy sources such as coal or due to policy changes, such as France’s embrace of nuclear energy. Energy transitions have occurred throughout history, from burning wood to coal, then oil and natural gas. Background.

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Building High-Performance Cultures with the Effective Point of Accountability

Effective Managers

Meanwhile, a manager in Finance is accountable to generate a Production report which requires obtaining updated information from the manager in Production. One can immediately see the conflict… the Finance manager relies on the Leasing manager for success. As a result, work does not get done, or it is done badly.

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How Industrial Firms Invest in Renewable Energy, Affordably

Harvard Business

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. You need legal, accounting, procurement, energy, and sustainability involved.

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. alone, according to the US.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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