Features such as location-based services, near field communications, augmented reality and an array of motion sensors deliver a platform ideal for business process innovation.

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Kloza said much of the expansion would come along the Gulf of Mexico and in the Midwest, an ideal spot to process heavy crude from Canada's emerging oil sand deposits.

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The Cosmo method is an ideal way to deliver a commoditized investment process that they can make money on.

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That process obviously isn't ideal for downloading a large number of files, but if you need to access files in a pinch, it's nice to have the option.

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In an ideal world, perhaps brands would seek to support that process by encouraging responsible consumption.

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Repeat this process for every item that appears in your ideal life but not in your actual experience.

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In an ideal world, messaging would happen in a flash but the real-world process it much more measured and methodical.

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Walking through his lab a decade ago, he had an epiphany: He envisioned an entire process by which he could feed corn sugar to lactobacilli that would exude ideal, highly concentrated lactic acid.

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The next logical step is to automate the physical process of cutting the diamond, and Dr Holden seems to have found the ideal partner.

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