There are a number of airlines where the entire business model is driven by reducing the amount of time the plane spends on the ground.

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The business forum was organized on the academia driven model of business cooperation to provide a platform for interaction between Chinese and Pakistani entrepreneurs and businessmen and to provide opportunities for technology transfer.

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Using a finance-driven business model, BP outsourced many of its corporate functions to contractors and eliminated many of its own engineers.

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Still in beta, Interesante has been developing content for the Argentinian community as a proof in concept for a diaspora-driven business model.

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Vivaldi valued the remaining 40 brands using a discounted cash flow model that also factored in the percentage of the business being driven by the brand.

FORBES: Beyond the Balance Sheet

Vivaldi valued the remaining 40 brands using a discounted cash-flow model that also factored in the percentage of the business being driven by the brand.

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In 2009 the DPJ ran on a quasi-populist and anti-establishment platform, promising on domestic policy to change the central government bureaucracy dominated, wasteful public works project spending driven, and big business and agricultural lobby favoring model of governance that basically described LDP government that had already backtracked on reforms made during the tenure of Koizumi Junichiro (2001-2006).

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We recently updated our model for Google, dividing its search business into PC and mobile-driven search.

FORBES: Google's Mobile Search Becoming More Valuable Than Traditional PC Search

Of all the companies I have looked at, however, Appian seems to be the leader in combining the social business capabilities, the structured and partially structured process description functionality, connectivity to existing applications, model-driven development, and mobility in a vision they call Worksocial.

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