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Unlocking the Potential of Less Than Truckload (LTL) Freight Shipping: Strategies for Efficiency and Cost Management

Strategy Driven

This method improves cost-efficiency for shippers with smaller cargo and maximizes the use of available space within transportation networks. One effective strategy is to combine smaller shipments destined for similar locations into one LTL shipment, which leads to better freight rates due to economies of scale.

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business Review

” Airlines are also pursuing efficiency in ways customers don’t see so easily, such as reducing the number of short-haul flights they offer and centralizing passengers in large airports. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

MGI’s latest research with McKinsey Analytics on the state of the big data revolution measures the progress various industries have made toward capturing the revenue and efficiency gains we envisioned five years ago. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

It hurried along the formation of global supply chains with ever greater efficiency and economies of scale. As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. It’s becoming steadily more efficient. It’s not very agile.