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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.

Industry 116
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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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The Key to Your Future Is Hiding in Your Company DNA

Innovation 360 Group

Your optimal value proposition at the moment lies at the intersection of the best offer externally and the most effective marketing capabilities internally. One factor shared by these market leaders is a DNA Focus. Trailing behind temporary market preferences. Holding onto old tech after new tech changes the industry structure.

Company 40
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Why Your Company Needs To Forget the Past in Order to Create a Brighter Future

Qmarkets

One common explanation is that due to strategic decisions made by Kodak's complacent executives, the company failed to move into the digital sphere well and fast enough. Another explanation usually focuses on the nature of digital technology and how it is interpreted.

Company 60
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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

The two primary methodologies organisations, analysts and Wall Street use to measure profitability are the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Rate of Return on Net Assets (RONA) because by describing profitability as ratios it allows us to neutralise differences and compare the profitability between different industries.

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Agile Mindset: How to Use Sprints to Streamline Projects

mjvinnovation

Agile Philosophy came from the Agile Manifesto, when a small group of people got together in 2001 to discuss their feelings about the traditional approach to project management for software development. Although it was born in the software industry, it is widely used in many other industries. development begins early.

Agile 40