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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. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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Wikipedia – A Lateral Idea in Action

Destination Innovation

Encarta was discontinued in 2009 by which time a new and mighty competitor was dominating the market – Wikipedia. Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001 as a web-based, free encyclopaedia. It was constructed on a remarkably lateral idea.

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

IdeaScale

Instead of custom Macs for dozens of different customer bases, Jobs laid down the rules that the company would focus on four products: One desktop model and one portable model for the personal consumer market and the business market. And until 2001, that was it.

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Getting Book Feedback

Stephen Shapiro

Although I have published books as far back as 2001 (with an even earlier one from 1996 when I was at Accenture), I am always learning something new. In future posts, I will talk about my publishing and marketing strategies, editing tactics, and more. This is book number 7. These are individuals that I know and trust. Stay tuned!

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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.