A small HR consulting business is looking to grow. The leadership team, made up of people with training and more than 20 years of experience each in organizational development and training, is deciding if it will pursue a low-cost strategy or a differentiation strategy. The team feels that they bring together a unique group of experts to deliver solutions to mid-sized companies. Which strategy do you recommend the consulting company pursue to market its services?

How should the environmental effects be dealt with when evaluating this project? the environmental effects should be ignored since the plant is legal without mitigation. the environmental effects should be treated as a sunk cost and therefore ignored. if the utility mitigates for the environmental effects, the project is not acceptable. however, before the company chooses to do the project without mitigation, it needs to make sure that any costs of "ill will" for not mitigating for the environmental effects have been considered in the original analysis. the environmental effects should be treated as a remote possibility and should only be considered at the time in which they actually occur. the environmental effects if not mitigated would result in additional cash flows. therefore, since the plant is legal without mitigation, there are no benefits to performing a "no mitigation" analysis.