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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business Review

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change.

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3 Effective Strategies for Leading Across Generations in the Workplace

CMOE

So, you could give team members the option of working remotely or only in the office part of the time, and you could institute a process of annual reviews to appeal to the priorities of all generations. Gen Z workers tend to focus on promotions and work-life balance, whereas Gen X and Baby Boomers value stability.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

Apple began its stunning transformation with the iPod in 2001, during the darkest days after the Internet bubble burst. This remains true in an upturn, especially as we ramp up again since customers’ priorities and mindsets themselves may have fundamentally changed due to the economic circumstances.

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#1,376 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

NASA landed a probe on Eros back in 2001. Drone technology hasn’t really taken off yet (pun intended) but all that may be about to change thanks to a novel approach that aims to turn drones into portable canopies, capable of springing into action to provide people with shade during concerts and sporting events. Drone Canopy.

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How to Embed Agile Thinking at Every Level of Your Company

CMOE

The term agile was coined in the information technology (IT) field in 2001 and was used to refer to a group of methodologies. Embedding agile thinking at every level of the company involves five practices: Change employee mindset. The best way to do this is by observing changes in employee behavior. Individual motivation.

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New Decade, New What?

100%Open

The trouble with predicting innovation is that the changes that people tend to foresee take a long time to materialise if they ever do. Clarke made one bizarrely accurate prediction as two astronauts in the movie 2001 can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad, that he calls a Newspad.

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5 steps to have an agile HR in your company

mjvinnovation

In times of exponential change, the agile approach is dominating the market. Technology. The concept of agile HR starts with the creation of the agile manifesto in 2001. Since HR affects all aspects of an organization, its transformation can be even more complex than changes in other areas. And HR can not be left out.

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