In a little more than a decade, Kobalt has become one of the major players of the world of music publishing — the side of the music business that counts the royalty beans for songwriters — by paring down its business model to a lean, technology-driven system.
The hope is that the GIB will invest in new green projects: reducing energy consumption and waste, supporting clean energy, or backing "lean" technologies.
The mergers of the 1980s, a hard pill to swallow for many companies at the time, helped pave the way for today's leaner, technology-oriented businesses.
In order to meet the increasingly stringent regulations in terms of pollutant emissions adopted by ICAO-CAEP in last years, a redesign of aero-engine combustors has been required and, today, lean combustion technology can be considered as the most effective solution.
It resides in the common belief that there is a fundamental, unbridgeable gap between "lean forward" technologies such as PCs and "lean back" technologies such as television.
If you bought a hybrid, fuel cell, alternative fuel or advanced lean-burn technology vehicle, you may qualify for a tax credit of up to $7,500.
So to solve this issue we leaned on technology.
The stragic acquisition of an extremely lean, hard technology-focused team (of one) fits with Apple's MO.
