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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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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. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. Polman and Branson are expected at these meetings now, but more leaders are joining.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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When Business Models Trump Technology

Harvard Business Review

But drip irrigation is not a new technology, it has been around for over 120 years, and many companies have developed and marketed it. The reason is a problem common to almost all new technology adoptions. Netafim can now share some of these benefits from the more efficient risk bearing in the new model with the farmers.