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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support.

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Eforms 101: Everything You Need To Know About eForms

Strategy Driven

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. Sales orders can be distributed to the manager for approval, while the finance manager can promptly receive credit applications to review and approve. Electronic Forms Are Easy To Design and Set Up.

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What SpaceX Can Teach Us About Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They remember that increasing profits isn''t the only goal. SpaceX has learned. They think big.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. With a similar goal, the U.S. Engineering innovations lowered the cost.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

Department of Transportation estimates that 15% of the country''s roads are in an unacceptable condition and says that road congestion costs the U.S. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. Global business Productivity Transportation PDF'

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Leading the Charge for Sustainable and Inclusive Supply Chains

HR Digest

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal. The HR Digest: C.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. If we could get better health some other way, just as we can now produce images without film and transport people and freight without railroads, then maybe we wouldn't have to rely so much on health care.