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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. Inventory challenges aren’t new. Measuring inventory momentum can help leaders address the problem.

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PCAST Meets to Discuss How Science & Tech Can Drive Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview : Since 2001, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has drawn on outside scientists, academics, engineers, and others to guide the President on effective policy for boosting innovation and scientific advancement in America.

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What Formula Made Steve Jobs as an Innovation Leader So Successful?

IdeaScale

Steve Jobs as a leader offers a simple set of lessons on innovation: You need to accept failure as part of the process; have a tight focus with clear and simple goals; ensure leadership takes ownership of the entire process, to think ahead of the current industry; and have high standards. And until 2001, that was it.

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Don Draper is (Finally) Dead

Innovation Excellence

David Bruel – Marketing, as we learned it, is dead. I graduated from college in 2001. If you wanted to learn Marketing at that time, you had two options: join a consultancy firm or work in FMCG, ideally in the food industry. We were Kings. I had the privilege to be selected by one.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Take the iPod for example.

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What Can Your Business Learn About Innovation from Shark Tank Ideas?

IdeaScale

Shark Tank has been around in some form or another since 2001, with the Japanese series “Money Tigers.” Just appearing on the show is marketing so invaluable it can double, triple, or more a company’s revenue, according to an analysis by Inc. Usually, a dollar amount is set for a small but significant percentage of the company.

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So What Exactly Should Kodak Have Done?

Destination Innovation

The usual message is that the big company was just too slow and complacent to react to the obvious tsunami that digital photography represented for the film industry. In 1976 Kodak enjoyed 90% market share of film sales and 85% share of camera sales in the USA. The facts are dramatic.