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Energy X secures $20M at $120M valuation to slash building sector emissions

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Countries worldwide have pledged to reduce their energy usage and reach net-zero energy targets by 2050. The push to clean up the built environment has spawned a lot of policy, as well as overlapping acronyms, including net-zero energy buildings (nZEBs) and zero-emission buildings (ZEBs). billion in 2017. trillion won ($1.3

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Galley Solutions turns kitchen chaos into recipe for streamlined operations

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Ian Christopher, COO, started the company with his brother-in-law, Benji Koltai, CEO, in 2017. The company grew its subscription revenue by 280% from last year and saw a 146% net dollar retention in the first quarter of 2022, Christopher said. million in Series A funding. That’s where the Series A comes in.

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

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billion business, and every dollar goes through a set of business processes and applications that didn’t exist in 2017. Net retention rate and annual recurring revenue also became key metrics, which were new to the entire organization. Today, we’re a $1.6 The architecture was a means to get there.

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The CAA CIO’s 5 building blocks to support teams

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So in 2017, Kin along with CEO Jay Woo devised an idea to create a machine learning system that helps predict where the next incident is going to happen. After a year of implementing one, we saw a 10% reduction in what we call ATA, or average time of arrival, and a 12% improvement in our net promoter score. So people are happier.”

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

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The ongoing delays and costs appear not to have pleased Invacare’s board, which two weeks later nudged Monaghan out saying the company needed “a change in leadership to oversee the successful execution of Invacare’s business transformation.” In 2017 Worth & Co. million in implementation costs. s purposes.

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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation

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One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides. Albemarle is growing fast. The playbook is there.

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Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments

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BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”. How do we reconcile these two sets of data?