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Could Solar Power The Next Industrial Revolution?

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Indeed, data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published last year showed that the price of solar fell by an incredible 82% between 2010 and 2019, with these advances drastically improving the energy gained from each panel, with the energy cost now extremely competitive against all other forms of electricity production.

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The Global Fight For Cloud Supremacy

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leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022. This allowed the company to drive sales of Azure alongside its existing products, such as Office and LinkedIn. Google was even later to the party, with its Cloud Platform not launched until 2013.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7

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Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7 ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

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Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 !

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7c – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Inventory

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Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

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During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. We are no longer living in that world.

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Tactical Execution Best Practice 7a – Are You Thinking Lean? The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Overproduction

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Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. About the Author.

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