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Cutting Your Business Costs: Top Tips

Strategy Driven

If you own or operate a service or contracting company that requires a vehicle, you are probably well aware of how vehicle costs might affect your bottom line. How can you lower your transportation expenses other than limiting business vehicle use to only essential travel? Lower vehicle expenses.

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Rascals

Chris Brady

  Thousands of pilots were shot down over northwestern Europe,and it wasn't long before clandestine operations sprang into place to smugglethem back to England to fight again.   Jongh demanded autonomy and permittedno interference in her operations, negotiated shrewdly, and soon receivedfunding and contacts for support.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. “Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Many of our target wood-burning customers lived on the outskirts of town and had no reason to travel to the central market, where our store was located. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo. Local experts, attentive networks, and an easy way to transport stoves — what more do you need?

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

IBM identified a set of “Grand Challenges” facing the continent that could be addressed through superior data analytics, including water and sanitation, energy management, financial services, transportation, public safety, healthcare, and agriculture. Last month, IBM launched a dialogue with the government of Nigeria. It’s neither.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. For instance, I am traveling to Seattle to work with leaders soon, and will use several profound notions of Dr. Doidge’s applications about rigid routines that could change with a few adjustments to the brain’s plasticity. All my best Jim. So here are my books 1.

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