Geoengineering is like Pizza
This is the way geoengineering is like a pizza. Imagine a fully loaded pizza, dripping with luscious high fat cheese. But you have elevated cholesterol and are at risk of a heart attack if you don’t...
View ArticleGeoengineering: A CDR Primer
Geoengineering, also called climate engineering, is a group of technologies that are seeking to mitigate the effects of climate change by two methods. The first of these, CDR, stands for carbon dioxide...
View ArticleSelling a Piece of the Pie: Equity Crowdfunding Basics
Equity Crowdfunding is a crowdfunding rose of a different color, and while it shares many elements of donation or reward crowdfunding, its nature as a capital investment means it comes under securities...
View ArticleHere Comes the Sun: Solar Geoengineering with Particles
Solar geoengineering is considered a more controversial method of geoengineering than carbon sequestration, because solar geoengineering is designed to change the atmosphere of the earth. The...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence is More Advanced than You Think
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been a staple in Sci-Fi genre classics, often depicting the future Armageddon, where machines rise up against their creators. Though many would assume we are still...
View ArticleCredit Card Fraud and the Latest Hacking Epidemic
If you’ve been following news in the hospitality industry, you may have noticed the recent widespread scandal involving hacked hotels. There are a lot of different ways to hack a hotel and, have no...
View ArticleWinners and Losers from the E-Commerce Wars
Chicken Little is staring up at the sky, waiting for it to fall, and doesn’t notice she is about to be mowed down by a speeding FedEx truck, loaded with Amazon boxes scheduled for delivery. In the...
View ArticleHealthcare: IoT in Telemedicine
Internet of Things (IoT) — the ability to connect any device to the Internet through an on and off switch — is a major component of telemedicine, which allows healthcare professionals to communicate...
View ArticleBest Practices for a Sucessful Crowdfunding Campaign
With a number of active crowdfunding platforms, some wonderful business success stories, and a few glorious crash-and-burns, we have enough information to detail some best practices for crowdfunding...
View ArticleButtons and Joysticks? The Human-Machine Interface is something different
Toggles and joysticks, inputs and outputs, control buttons: the human-machine interface is not about gadgets. The current state of interaction between humans and machines, soon to be humans and AIs, is...
View ArticleCurrent Trends in Crowdfunding Campaigns
Crowdfunding has changed since the first exciting days, and several new trends show the maturing industry. Projects rooted in sustainability remain popular, such as hemp fiber glasses frames and window...
View ArticleInternal and external controls in European companies
The reliability of the financial results of a company is of great importance, as they represent an important information for financiers, banks, business partners, etc. The financial information shall...
View ArticleOptimizing invoice handling for a law firm
If a law firm wants to generate an improved cash inflow through a faster invoicing process, a simple and standardized billing process needs to be created. The optimizations should lead to a reduction...
View ArticleThe DMAIC method to optimize support processes
Over the past decade, the framework conditions in nearly all industries have changed fundamentally. What at first glance looks like a global process of change is much more complex on closer analysis....
View ArticleRisk Management in Corporate Planning
Corporate planning is one of the most important tasks of the management and serves the presentation and calculation of possible future developments. Making the future plannable depends on a number of...
View ArticleAccounting Trends for International Businesses
Today’s accounting department must not only deal with the collection of financial information, but has to deal with non-financial information, controlling, IT and process topics to demonstrate that...
View ArticleHome is where the customer is
Home is where the customer is. The physical home is an extended home-zone, nowadays. If you want to be successful with your services, you have to reach the customer in his home where he uses his...
View ArticleThe Company Is Where I Am | New Workplace Concepts
According to Peter Thomson, a respected authority in the concept of future work, many organizations are still using the Industrial Age working practices to make things work in the new Information Age...
View ArticleIndividual Transport Vs. Mass Transport Since Corona
Mass transport has been among the hardest-hit sectors by the COVID-19 pandemic. As ridership numbers have continued to reduce, many operators in developing and developed countries have had to face an...
View ArticleSustainability in commercial real estate
It is a complex practice aimed at creating and maintaining conditions that will promote a prolonged existence of human beings. It involves production practices that do not exhaust resources that future...
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