Sitting in an office adorned with model spaceships, he argues that the proposed Texas spaceport would neither depend on federal money nor require the use of federal air space, two factors he believes will entice aerospace companies that want to minimise bureaucracy.
In contrast to Mr Duncan Smith, his private office has been a model of efficiency.
As he begins to explain to me in his Dallas office how he instilled a business model into what is essentially a political operation, Sessions stands up and walks to a whiteboard.
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The office has been set up on the model of the National Security Council.
Under the cloud-computing model, Microsoft would store Office programs on its own servers and deliver them to customers online.
With the writers' strike increasingly wreaking havoc on media company bottom lines, to say nothing of the industry's declining ratings and box office attendance, Hollywood's economic model is poised to undergo a big change in 2008.
Smartphones, PDAs and tablets of every make and model are going from home to office.
Feeney keeps a toy model of the Terminator in his office, along with hundreds of other familiar 10-inch plastic characters.
The city's Office of Emergency Management was still reviewing the new model when Sandy hit.
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"The crisis had little effect on us, " says 64-year-old Ratmoko, who keeps a model of a sailing ship in his office and races Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
The efforts of the Office of National Drug Control Policy provide a useful model for how such coordination across agencies with overlapping responsibilities might be carried out.
The FT used the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) own model to reach this conclusion.
To demonstrate this, Messrs Godley and Martin feed the assumptions of America's Congressional Budget Office for growth and fiscal policy into their own economic model.
In the past, co-ordination problems were blamed on the legacy of the 'Whitehall model' which had been inherited from the Welsh Office.
Turn a corner and you can sneak a furtive look inside Anschutz's office: glass walls lined with books, deal mementos and model trains.
The virtual model changes the cost structure: no need for office space, tax professionals can be anywhere ( India?), and probably customers can be led to a greater degree of self-service, since the process is already occurring on their computer.
One under-reported but highly significant aspect of the whole extraordinary incident is that Mr Dimon announced that he was abandoning a new financial system for monitoring the risks run by the Chief Investment Office and reverting to the old one - because the new model was chronically understating the potential losses the bank could have generated on any given day.
The traditional model won't provide David the ability to install Office on multiple devices, to use Office on any PC or to continuously upgrade to the newest versions, but it best fits the way he uses his computer and Office.
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Sure, Microsoft announced the business version of Office 365 a while ago, but previous efforts at a rental model by the Redmond company were less consumer focused, in no way a Netflix of productivity but instead awkward first attempts to fast-follow Google and others into the software as a service space while not really feeling it.
"Reagan is his model, " Martin said, invoking the two-term Republican office-holder of the 1980s.
Banks have traditionally struggled to find a profitable business model in impoverished areas, where the cost of operating a branch office usually outweighs whatever profits it can achieve.
Much like Microsoft Word had a model for GUI-based word processing in MacWrite, touch-optimized office suites have been developed by or snapped up by Microsoft's competitors, including Apple ( iWork), Google ( QuickOffice) and RIM ( Docs To Go).
"I won't put money in an IPO unless I am convinced that the company has a really strong and sustainable business model, " said Mr. Chavan, 67 years old, who runs an office-equipment shop.
I'm told that the Foreign Office regularly receives requests and visits from the Chinese, wanting to hear more about the "Westminster model".
The result was vastly increased productivity, opportunities, and even a new type of business model (mass customization) that otherwise would not have come into being under the Post Office monopoly.
Just as business leaders should consider following the flipped classroom model for business presentations, think about deploying a blended learning approach for employees working outside your main office.
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