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

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. 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. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

We’ll also provide a series of practical tips and examples that can help address the changes, embrace new opportunities, and navigate these challenging times. As not all organizations are willing to take the risk to shift gears and change direction, that’s where you can outperform competitors. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

That all changed in November though, when ad sales, our primary source of revenue, dropped precipitously. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne popularized the notion of a Blue Ocean Strategy , which focuses on new markets, rather than fighting it out in a “red ocean” filled with rabid competition. Build Trust Through Candor And Transparency.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change. At the same time the economy changed.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization. Many of the problems they reported indicated that both UX professionals and technical staff lacked a shared understanding of each others’ team roles and responsibilities.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

"Innovate (verb): To Make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.” . All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network.

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Clicking Fast and Slow

Boxes and Arrows

Work with ecommerce ratings and reviews have noted the “bandwagon” effect, where any item with a large number of reviews tends to be preferred, often when there is little knowledge of where the positive reviews come from. Screen grab showing an Amazon review. CHI New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2009. Who is Authoritative?